St. Roch

St. Roch in Arctic ice

The St. Roch is a Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner. She is made primarily of thick Douglas-fir, with very hard Australian Eucalyptus "iron bark" on the outside, and an interior hull reinforced with heavy beams to withstand ice pressure during her Arctic duties. Her length is 31.78 metres (104.25 feet).

History

• 1928 - constructed in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• 1929-1939 - supplied and patrolled Canada's Arctic
• 1940-1942 - became first vessel to complete a Pacific to Atlantic voyage through the Northwest Passage
• 1944 - became first vessel to make a return trip through the Northwest Passage and also the first to navigate the passage in a single season
• 1944-1948 - patrolled Arctic
• 1950 - became first vessel to circumnavigate North America, from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Vancouver, British Columbia, via the Panama Canal
• 1954 - returned to Vancouver for preservation
• 1962 - designated a Canadian National Historic Site at the Vancouver Maritime Museum

External links

• St. Roch page at Historical Naval Ships Association
• Vancouver Maritime Museum
• RCMP Museum