LOT 0205 Charles J Lundgren (1911 - 1988) "St. Roch"
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Charles J Lundgren (New York, Connecticut, 1911 - 1988) "Royal Canadian Icebreaker - St. Roch" Signed lower right. Original oil painting on Masonite. Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation. This painting is the original painting which was published on the Fleetwood First Day Cover for the Canadian 14c St. Roch stamp issued November 15, 1978. Built in 1928 from sturdy Douglas fir and Australian gumwood, the 104-foot patrol schooner, St. Roch, was soon the pride of Vancouver and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for whom she was built. Under the command of Sergeant Henry Larsen, the legendary St. Roch, with a crew of nine, made the first single-season transit of the treacherous Northwest Passage, a feat to which ships of much greater size had aspired for centuries, in hopes of opening a commercial sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific. On his first historic trip, Sergeant Larsen and the St. Roch left Vancouver on June 23, 1940, and miraculously arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia -- on the Atlantic coast -- on October 11, 1942. On this grueling twenty-eight month voyage, the St. Roch was twice frozen in for months at a time. In 1944, she made the famous return voyage, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, in a single season: over seven thousand miles in eighty-six days. On both trips through the Passage, she proudly flew the blue Ensign which featured on its outer edge the buffalo head badge of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In 1950, the St. Roch sailed from Vancouver to Halifax via the Panama Canal, thus becoming the first ship to completely circumnavigate North America. Her last ocean voyage was in 1954, and in 1958 she was given back to her home port of Vancouver. Image Size: 18.5 x 20.5 in. Overall Size: 22 x 26 in. Unframed. (B06151)
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