CHRISTMAS EARLY
Endeavour Celebrates
(N.Z. Press Association)
WELLINGTON, December 21. Men of the R.N.Z.N. Antarctic support ship Endeavour celebrated Christmas secured alongside the ice at McMurdo Sound today. On Friday they expect to be in the “screaming sixties,” the gale-lashed southern ocean, on their way back to New Zealand, says a Navy release. The Endeavour reached McMurdo Sound on Friday, having left Lyttelton on December 6. On December 11 she met the American destroyer Mills on weather picket 900 miles south of Bluff and in snow showers and rough seas 38 bags of Christmas mail and 12,000 gallons of fuel were transferred.
The first ice was sighted the next day. It grew progressively thicker, with occasional patches of open water, but the ship steadily worked south till she met the icebreaker Glacier off Cape Royds. The Glacier was joined by the Staten Island and the two icebreakers made a passage for the final leg to an anchorage at Hut Point, only 200 ft from Scott’s historic hut. The Endeavour will sail again on Tuesday and her crew expects to celebrate New Year’s Eve in Dunedin.
In prospect are a long oceanographic cruise in the southern ocean and a second supply voyage to McMurdo Sound before the season ends in March.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30630, 22 December 1964, Page 16
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210CHRISTMAS EARLY Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30630, 22 December 1964, Page 16
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