Date in year · 1950 · The 1950s
On May 29, 1950, the St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Grigory Sokolov, Peter Frampton, Jancis Robinson would arrive in the same year.
Events
1
Births
0
Deaths
0
Year
1950
1950s
Featured · May 29, 1950
RCMPV St. Roch is a Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner, the first ship to completely circumnavigate North America, and the second vessel to transit the Northwest Passage. She was the first ship to complete the Northwest Passage in the west to east direction, using the same route that Amundsen on the sailing vessel Gjøa had traversed east to west, 38 years earlier.
Around 1950
1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1950th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 950th year of the 2nd millennium, the 50th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1950s decade.
What happened
Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner
RCMPV St. Roch is a Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner, the first ship to completely circumnavigate North America, and the second vessel to transit the Northwest Passage. She was the first ship to complete the Northwest Passage in the west to east direction, using the same route that Amundsen on the sailing vessel Gjøa had traversed east to west, 38 years earlier.
Elsewhere that year
The class of 1950
Step through
Keep going