This work is one example of Ashoona’s many renderings of the RMS Nascopie, a supply ship to the Hudson’s Bay Company’s northern outposts that struck an uncharted reef off Beacon Island at the entrance to Kinngait (formerly Cape Dorset) harbour on July 21, 1947; it remained visible in the harbour for a few weeks until it broke in half completely and sank to the bottom of the inlet. The ship’s side reads “Titanic, Nascopie, and Noah’s Ark” in both English and Inuktitut, conflating ship disasters from different geographical regions and periods in history. The ship is pursuing a giant aquatic creature, which is strategically trying to be led out of the inlet by four small fishing boats.