The legendary Northwest Passage, a direct water route across the top of North America, has been the goal of navigators since Explorer Henry Hudson perished trying to find it in 1611. Norway's famed Roald Amundsen made a trip across in the 47-ton yacht Gjöa in 1905; the 80-ton Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner St. Roch (TIME, Aug. 2), commanded by Mountie Superintendent Henry A. Larsen, in 1942 became the first vessel to make the passage from west to east. But both Amundsen and Larsen sailed through Prince of Wales Strait, detouring around the...
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