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This wreck out in the Hudson Bay is the MV Ithica. She was in the process of hauling a cargo of nickel ore from Rankin Inlet to Montreal in 1961 when a storm grounded her on those tidal flats. Apparently she can be reached on foot during low tides and when the Hudson Bay is frozen over.
Thanks: Eric Veilleux
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Federal Commerce & Navigation owned several ships including the 2,051–ton FEDERAL EXPLORER, a former canaller whose bridge had been moved aft during an earlier conversion for deep-sea service. Acquired in 1955 for the Arctic re-supply business. Federal Commerce sold the FEDERAL EXPLORER to the Ithaka Shipping Co Ltd of Nassau in 1960. Under the new name of ITHAKA, she was lost while on charter to the Clarke Steamship Co Ltd in Hudson Bay. She was on a voyage from Rankin Inlet to Churchill under Clarke’s contract to carry nickel concentrate out of Rankin, and went aground on September 14, 1960, after dragging her anchors. Having only left Churchill with generals on September 10, the ITHAKA’s time with Clarke was remarkably short, just four days!