This is a post of another coastal race that earned the master no glory but a large sum. From the archives:
Auxiliary schooner NANUK, winner of the annual fur-traders race between Alaska and San Francisco.
During this time period, NANUK was owned and skippered by Capt. C. T. Pederson, whose wife always sailed along with him. His 1925 cargo was worth $270,000––the largest cargo of furs ever brought to San Francisco to date, it was said. (That sum converts to c. $3,650,000 for today's date.)
1927: The NANUK was sold to the well-known Olaf Swenson of Swenson Fur Trading Co of Seattle. He was one of the world's largest dealers in furs.
1933: Nanuk was purchased by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for filming the Eskimo with Capt. James A. Hersey in command.
Biblio: Movie reference and Swenson purchase data from H. W. McCurdy's Marine History of the PNW, edited by Gordon Newell.
Schooner NANUK (ex-OTTILLIE FJORD) Home from Alaska, 16 October 1925. Blt by Hans D. Bendixsen at Fairhaven, CA. Original photo by Cleve and Acme from archives of Saltwater People Historical Society.© |
Auxiliary schooner NANUK, winner of the annual fur-traders race between Alaska and San Francisco.
During this time period, NANUK was owned and skippered by Capt. C. T. Pederson, whose wife always sailed along with him. His 1925 cargo was worth $270,000––the largest cargo of furs ever brought to San Francisco to date, it was said. (That sum converts to c. $3,650,000 for today's date.)
1927: The NANUK was sold to the well-known Olaf Swenson of Swenson Fur Trading Co of Seattle. He was one of the world's largest dealers in furs.
1933: Nanuk was purchased by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for filming the Eskimo with Capt. James A. Hersey in command.
"Making a Movie in the Far North", from the NANUK, 1933.
The upper photo shows the expedition
approaching a walrus on an ice pack.
Original photo from the archives of the S.P.H.S.© |
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