Antarctic Veterans May Meet

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31908, 8 February 1969, Page 42

Antarctic Veterans May Meet

Two Antarctic veterans may meet again after 45 years when the 26,677-ton Swedish cruise liner Kungsholm (shown above) returns to Lyttelton on February 15 on a one-day visit. She was here last February. The Kungsholm is making a 93-day cruise from New York to commemorate the Cook bicentenary. On board the liner as a special guest lecturer is Captain Alan Villiers, the author and navigator and one of the world’s outstanding authorities on sailing ships. He recently published a biography of Captain Cook. Mr T. L. Young, of Lyttelton, served on board the Sir James Clark Ross during a Norwegian whaling expedition in the Antarctic in 1923. He was a shipmate of Captain Villiers. Mr Young, a Tasmanian, hopes to meet Captain Villiers again. They were paid off the ship at Port' Chalmers together. Aboard the Kungsholm is a life-size wax model of Captain Cook made for the ship’s owners, the Swedish American Line, by Madam Tussaud’s. The Kungsholm is also carrying a scale model of Captain Cook’s ship, the Endeavour. The Kungsholm’s first New Zealand port of call will be Tauranga on February 13. When she leaves her second port, Lyttelton, on February 15, she will proceed to Wellington by way of Queen Charlotte Sound. From Wellington she will go to Hobart.