Supply ship’s last trip
The United States Navy Antarctic supply vessel Private John R. Towle will call at Lyttelton on January 20 on her last trip to the ice.
The Private John R. Towle has called at Lyttelton every season for almost 20 years in the course of supplying the United States base' at McMurdo Sound. Her first recorded call at Lyttelton is .believed to have been in February, 1957. The chief of terminal; operations for the United; States Navy support force at; Christchurch (Major A. R. i
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34041, 3 January 1976, Page 13
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88Supply ship’s last trip Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34041, 3 January 1976, Page 13
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