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Newfoundland Sealing Ship ERIK on drydock [graphic material]

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Date:

ca. 1900-1901.

Type of material:

Photographs

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3284806

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Andrew Audubon Merrilees fonds

Merrilees photographic and art collection

A.E. Young marine collection and other photographs of North American railways

Newfoundland Sealing Ship ERIK on drydock
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Date(s):

ca. 1900-1901.

Place of creation:

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Extent:

Negatives - glass

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Photograph shows the SS Erik after hitting an iceberg at full speed at night. Vessel was saved by filling the forepeak with seal pelts, and reached home safely.

The S.S. Erik was a propeller driven steamship, built in the Dundee, Scotland, for service in northern waters, She was launched in 1865, and worked as a whaling ship off Labrador, until her purchase by the Hudson's Bay Company. From 1888 to 1900 she provided transport to and from London, England, to Labrador and Hudson's Bay. She was the first steam powered vessel to enter Hudson's Bay.

The ship ran aground in Hudson's Bay in 1900 but was refloated in 1901, and returned to the UK, where she was sold, and then turned to Labrador's seal fishery. SS Erik also served as a supply vessel for Robert E. Peary's exploration voyages in 1902 and 1906.

On Aug. 25, 1918, the vessel departed St. John's bound for North Sydney to pick up a load of coal, and was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, about 75 miles from St-Pierre.

Further details about S.S. Erik can be found here: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?146721
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FA-053

MERRILEDB
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General note:

Additional information about the SS Erik can also be found in the LAC Ship Registration database at: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/ship-registration-index-1787-1966/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=20805&DotsIdNumber=

Series added entry:

B-020284

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ERIK

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Private

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1980-149 NPC
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Credit: Andrew Merrilees / Library and Archives Canada
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