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Doctor Rymer

Doctor Rymer
Photo: Libraries and Archives Canada (LAC)

Histoire

This mission boat was built in 1914.

Notes historiques

The mission vessel may also have been used for mail delivery on the Mackenzie River. This vessel was too light for the demands made on her engine so in 1928 this vessel was replaced by the Immaculata. This vessel was wrecked in a gale on Wilmot Island NWT while enroute to King William Island. It was wrecked in a huge storm in the Wilmot Islands in 1928. Patsy, his brother-in-law Ikey Bolt and a small child were rescued by HBC's supply ship SS Baychimo.

Propriétaires et capitaines

In 1914 she was a Roman Catholic Church mission vessel which replaced the Ste. Marie. The Doctor Rymer was owned by Ikey Bolt and Patsy Klengenberg (JO), NWT.

Capitaines

9

Signification du nom

She was was named for a doctor who worked for the Roman Catholic Church missions.

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