“Karluk”

“Karluk” – brigantine, the flagship of the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913–1916, organized by known anthropologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson. The vessel, when it was bought V.Stefansonom, was 29 years old. It was built for the Aleutian fishing industry (salmon) in 1884, then it was converted into a whaler. Displacement 247 t, length 37 m, width 6.9 m, draft 4.9 m, board thickness 51 mm of Australian ironwood. The ship’s captain Robert Bartlett. The crew of 25 people. On July 13, 1913 “K” went to explore Herschel Island in the Beaufort Sea. On August 13, 1913, 300 km from their destination, “K” was trapped by ice and started a slow drift to the west. After a long drift through the Beaufort Sea and the Chukchi Sea on January 10, 1914 brigantine was crushed by ice and sank. For several months the crew and expedition members were fighting for survival on the ice first, and then on the shores of Wrangel Island, which got 17 people. The rest died or were missing. Surviving 12 people earn...