| Name: | NASCOPIE |
| Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 07/12/1911 |
| Completed: | 01/1912 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 870 |
| Dimensions: | 2521grt, 1503nrt, 285.5 x 43.8 x 20.2ft |
| Engines: | T3cyl (21.5, 35.5, & 58 x 42ins), 339nhp |
| Engines by: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 11.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 129922 |
| History: | |
| 21/02/1912 | Nascopie Steamship Co Ltd, St John's, Newfoundland |
| 1916 | Hudson's Bay Co, London |
| 22/07/1947 | Wrecked |
| Comments: | Fitted with an ice breaker bow & thicker than normal hull plates |
| Named after the Indigenous people of Quebec and Labrador | |
| 22/07/1947: Wrecked off Beacon Island near Cape Dorset | |
| On a voyage from Montreal to Hudson's Bay carrying passengers & supplies | |
| 25/09/1947: Broken in half by a storm & bow sank in deep water | |
| 15/10/1947: Stern sank in deep water after a storm |
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