The Baychimo: The Arctic Ghost Ship That Drifted for 38 Years

The steamer Baychimo locked in Arctic pack ice: a dark steel hull with a single funnel, half-buried in broken ice under a pale sky

About 5 min readAbandoned in the Arctic ice in 1931, the steamer Baychimo refused to sink. For 38 years she was sighted again and again along the Alaskan coast — boarded, stripped, and left to drift — until the last sighting in 1969. No wreck has ever been found.