The St. Roch is a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeschooner. She is made primarily of thick Douglas-fir, with very hard AustralianEucalyptus "iron bark" on the outside, and an interior hull reinforced with heavy beams to withstand ice pressure during her Arctic duties. Her length is 31.78 metres (104.25 feet).
History
1928 - constructed in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1929-1939 - supplied and patrolled Canada's Arctic
Roch was quickly recognized as being vital to such plans, thanks to her ability to operate in heavy ice - she was the only vessel of her type owned by the Canadian government.
Roch is the centerpiece of the Vancouver Maritime Museum.
Roch is one of the relatively few large vessels to be housed in an enclosed exhibit hall.
As soon as my bills were in the register she fetched a handful of shrimp, rubbed them in a pan of yellowish grains and then palmed them like she was packing a snowball; she dropped the sticky mass into the fryer and only looked back when an internal timer told her to.
I can't say the sandwich was made with love, but she was right: At the end of the week, the unusually crunchy and lightly fried shrimp, set between squishy po-boy bread with a slather of mayo and pickles, were some of the friendliest specimens I had encountered at St. Roch.
On Thursday at St. Roch, I noticed the stubby bottom halves of those columns, which are now cut off by a low ceiling.
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