MV Ithaca Shipwreck-005
MV Ithaca
Shortly after leaving port on 14 September 1960,
bound for Rankin Inlet with a cargo of electrical generators and plywood,
its rudder broke in an eighty-mile-an-hour gale and it ran aground in Bird Cove,
19 kilometres (12 mi) from Churchill, Manitoba, running onto a shallow gravel-bank 750 metres (820 yd) off shore.
The 80-metre-long wreck sits high and dry when the tide is low and completely surrounded by water at high tide.
