Karluk
Books
- Left on the Ice The Karluk Disaster and the Canadian Arctic Expedition's Fight for Survival · Liszt Think
In August 1913, the Karluk, flagship of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, became trapped in pack ice off Alaska. When leader Vilhjalmur Stefansson departed on a hunting trip, he never returned to the vessel.
- The Ship and the Plan…Victoria stepped back and wiped his forehead with a gray handkerchief, leaving a streak of coal dust across his temple. Before him lay the Karluk, a brigantine recently painted government white but still smelling faintly of whale oil and blubber smoke from her working years in the Okh…
- The Leader and the CaptainIn June 1913, the whaler Karluk lay in dry dock at Esquimalt, her hull scraped and her seams caulked for a voyage she was never built to make. Captain Robert Bartlett walk…
- Into the Gripping Ice…ead, embedded in a voyage already deviating from its promises before the ice made deviation permanent. On the morning of July 13, 1913, the Karluk cleared Nome with twenty-five men aboard, her holds packed with scientific instruments, her deck crowded with dogs and sledges, her ownersh…