Word: roche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roch's voyages are patrols to assert Canadian sovereignty over the Artic...
...turned Point Barrow into the Bering Sea. He knew that he had done what no other man had done: navigated the legendary Northwest Passage from west to east and back again. Last week Staff Sergeant Larsen piloted the weather-beaten 80-ton Royal Canadian Mounted Police ship, St. Roch, into Vancouver Harbor. She was just 86 days out of Halifax, had sailed on a 7,500-mile trip around the top of North America...
Larsen joined the R.C.M.P., not to be a policeman but to become an Arctic mariner for the force. His ship, the St. Roch, was specially built for Arctic voyaging. A diesel-powered schooner, she was built of timbers two-thirds heavier than those used in any ordinary craft. Her hull is sheathed in Australian ironbark-the only wood that can stand the grinding pressure of the pack...
Northwest Passengers. The St. Roch picked up some passengers on the way. She ferried an Eskimo family from Baffin Island to Herschel. Island, not far from the mouth of the Mackenzie River. Mother, father, grandmother, five children and 17 dogs insisted on staying topside, pitched their pup tent on the open deck...
...point the St. Roch broke out the blue ensign to signal a settlement of Aleuts. The Aleuts refused to answer until the St. Rock ran up the Stars & Stripes. They thought their visitor was a Jap ship...