RCMP's St. Roch - Virtual Tour

Presenting 34 high resolution interactive virtual tours of the RCMP St. Roch.

The St. Roch was the first ship to successfully transit the Northwest Passage from west to east and the first to ship to circumnavigate the North American continent. Today she rests stately and quietly in permanent dry dock at the Vancouver Maritime Museum. It is a fitting-resting place, for this is her home, the place where she was built in 1928. Designed as an arctic supply and patrol vessel for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, she was constructed of thick Douglas fir, sheathed on the outside with one of the hardest woods known, Australian "iron bark." Her interior hull is reinforced with heavy beams to withstand ice pressure. She was originally rigged as a 31.7-meter schooner with a 7.6-meter beam, with an auxiliary 112 kW diesel engine. In 1944, an extensive refit in Halifax gave her a much larger and improved deckhouse and a stronger 224 kW engine. Her masts and rigging were altered to that of a ketch. If you are lucky enough to visit the museum, this is the current arrangement you will see.

	Exterior Waist - Aft Waist - Port Weather Bridge - Aft Weather Bridge - Forward Bow Nameplate Port Bow Starboard Bow Foremast Hull Aft Hull Forward	Cabins Engineers Radio Room Medicine Chest Navigator Typewriter
Engine Spaces Engine - Above Engine - Control Engine - Forward Batteries Generator Gyro Compass	Common Areas Bridge Dining Table Galley Library Fo'c'sle - After part Fo'c'sle - Forward part	Stowage Hallway Lower Deck Companionway Stores Hall Hold Hold (Engine Side) Stores Lazarette

These Virtual tours are available in QuicktimeVR format. Select an area of the vessel above to view that 360° image. Once the image has loaded click anywhere within the image and drag your mouse pointer to make the image move in the direction you drag.

The QuicktimeVR format requires a free plugin from Apple Computer. If you don't have the Quicktime plugin you can download it for free from Apple by clicking the download link below.