Varick Frissell, an American filmmaker born in Boston, Massachusetts
The SS Viking was a ship used by the film producer Varick Frissell in the making of the 1931 film The Viking.
After graduation from Yale in 1927, he embarked on another film, The Great Arctic Seal Hunt, which was complied from a film he had shot aboard the SS Beothic during the seal hunt.
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Frissell wrote an account of his explorations and submitted it to The Geographical Journal for publication entitled Explorations in the Grand Falls Region of Labrador, which earned him membership in the Royal Geographical Society.
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Director Varick Frissell, cinematographer Alexander G. Penrod, and almost all the film crew were killed on March 15, 1931, when the sealing ship SS Viking, from which they were shooting additional footage, exploded in ice off the Horse Islands on the northern Newfoundland coast.