St. Roch

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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).

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• 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

Royal Canadian Mounted Police: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP or Mounties; French, Gendarmerie royale du Canada, GRC) is both the federal police force and the national police of Canada. The RCMP provides federal (national) police services. It also provides, under contract, provincial and municipal police services to Can...

Schooner: A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts. Schooners were first used by the Dutch in the 16th or 17th century, and further developed in North America from the time of the American Revolution....

Arctic: The Arctic is the area around the Earth's North Pole. The Arctic includes parts of Russia, Alaska (United States), Canada, Greenland (a territory of Denmark), Iceland, and Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, and Finland), as well as the Arctic Ocean....

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