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further Page 5 Re "The California Connection" article: No, we haven't heard anything from Mr. David Cobert concerning the ghost ship BAY CHIMO, but juggle the letters in his surname and add a t' and you should come up with Corbett who we did hear from. Seattle member, Fred J. Corbett, writes:- 5/26/91 Gentlemen or Women; Having read your article on page 4 of the May 1991 newsletter, I may have some information to add. A little history is involved. The late, great Norwegian explorer, Roald Amundsen was the first man to sail the northwest passage and also the first man to reach the South Pole. Mr. Amundsen received world wide recognition for these exploits and considered himself to be an expert on vessels for navigating in ice conditions. He had built a motor sailer for such expeditions and named the ship MAUD. My wife, Evelyn, was taken by her father, Hans Ulstein, a prominent member of the North Van Norwegian Community, aboard the MAUD in Vancouver where she met Roald Amundsen. It was about 1927 or a year or two earlier. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Amundsen sold the MAUD to The Hudson's Bay Fur Trading Co. who used it for expeditions to the McKenzie River Delta area. The vessel was caught in the Arctic ice and became a so called 'ghost ship'. Many years later, while on an over the ice expedition, another Norwegian came upon the MAUD still stuck in the ice. He brought back a deadeye from the ship's rigging and presented it to Hans Ulstein, whose son. Ole had it made into a lamp. This lamp is now in my possession. The MAUD may not be the one mentioned in your article, but then, maybe she could have been re-named. If your research finds a connection, and if this generates any interest, I would be glad to come to a meeting and bring the lamp. I remain. Yours truly, Fred G. Corbett While visit ing in Yellowknife for the summer sols t ice, I came acros s an article on Cambridge Bay in which the MAUD was mentioned. So, w ith the help of the Fall 1989 issue of "Northwest Explore r”, I had the pi easure of updating Mr. Corbett in my letter to him of June 26th. "Traces of the past are everywhere. The Hudson's Bay store stands beside old Bay buildings erected in 1924 and still easily identifiable in their clean white and red paint. The Twenties buildings are used as a storage area for the tons of goods that arrive in late summer on the annual barge. The Bay owns another relic of the past, the BAYMAUD. Originally the MAUD, this derelict lies almost completely submerged across the inlet from the present townsite. Roald Amundsen sailed the three-masted MAUD through the Northeast Passage from Russia to Alaska during the years from 1918 to 1925. Amundsen had hopes of flying over the Polar Basin, so MAUD carried two planes plus the latest in wireless and observation equipment. The first Arctic weather transmissions to the south came from the MAUD. MAUD was sold to the Bay, renamed the BAYMAUD and used for a short period of time as a supply ship. Eventually she was moored in the harbour and used as a floating warehouse. Two years later, MAUD sprang a leak and sank to her watery