POLAR SUBMARINE
Lady Wilkins “Ruled Out” ARCTIC EXPLORER’S PLAN Philadelphia, March 12. Lady Wilkins will not accompany her explorer husband on the submarine Polar trip. Addressing the annual dinner of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia on Wednesday night, where he received the Elisha Kent Kane Medal, the highest honour in the gift of the society, awarded for outstanding geographic research, Sir Hubert Wilkins said that his wife would accompany him. to Norway, “but this is as ’far as she ■will go,” he added.” “It is the duty of the leader of any expedition to look after the welfare of every member. He Is not expected to look after the welfare of any particular one. That rules wives out. We are not definitely sure we shall get through’, though we believe we will. However, if we don’t someone else will.” ' . Sir Hubert said that he had inspected the Arctic submarine and found the work going along splendidly. The first trial would be on a trip to New York, where the craft will be rechristened the Nautilus. Thence they would proceed to Newfoundland for the final tests.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 144, 14 March 1931, Page 7
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