поскольку поиск по картинкам в яндексе не помог, пришлось обратиться к яхе
оказалось, что в буржуинских интернетах уважаемый aukepalmhof на форуме shipstamps.co.uk сообщает подробностей про ледокол и полярную почту с ним
http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11915
In the bottom margin of this se-tenant pair is the communication across the strait through the years inscribed.
From 1827 small iceboats were used in which crews sailed and hauled boats equipped with runners, across open waters and over the ice between Cape Traverse and Cape Tormentine, N.B., operating weekly carrying mail and passengers.
On 07 December 1876 the NORTHERN LIGHT commenced service as the first Canadian government steamer used for crossing the strait, the ship details and career you can find in the index. She is the ship in the middle.
The ship in the margin on the right is the MINTO which began service in 1899.
Built as a steel hulled icebreaker under yard No 186 by Gourlay Bros, Dundee for the Canadian Government.
12 July 1899 launched as the MINTO, named after Governor General Earl of Minto (1898-1904)
Tonnage 1,089 gross, 372 net, dim. 225 x 32,6 x 20.6ft.
One triple expansion steam engine, 2,900 ihp, one shaft speed 16 knots.
September 1899 completed. Building cost $175,433
Used in the ferry service between Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island and Pictou on the mainland of Canada.
During the rough winter she was trapped in the ice for more as two months.
1915 She was bought by Russia Imperial Government and renamed IVAN SUSANIN.
28 November 1915 she sailed from North Sydney under Russian flag under command of Captain John Read and a crew of 52.
After a passage of 17 days on 15th December she arrived in Alexanderovsk (now Polarynj), near Murmansk, Russia.
After taking on board bunkers she proceeded to Arkhangelsk, in a position about 35 miles from Arkhangelsk the ice got very thick and the IVAN SUSANIN could not enter Arkhangelsk, a Russian crew was brought out and relieved the Canadian crew, the voyage over it ice took more as 20 hours by sleds and by a temperature of minus 35 degree Celsius many crew members were severely frostbitten on arrival in Arkhangelsk.
1918 Under the Communist Russian Red Government, renamed in LEITENANT DREYER, and later in SKURATOV.
Under this name she foundered at Cheshkaya Guba, East Barents Sea in 1922.
