NAUTILUS IS SILENT
Wireless Men Wait Vainly NO WORD OF EXPEDITION Oslo, September 2. Despite that wireless operators have been Incessantly calling and listening
all night, when communications from the Wilkins Arctic submarine Nautilus are expected, no reply has been heard since August 30. On August 18. with her machinery overhauled, the Nautilus started for the North Pole. This message was received from Spitsbergen, and since then there has been an unbroken silence from the vessel. Sir Hubert Wilkins’s last reports stated that a leaking valve was giving trouble, and drift ice was menacing the Nautilus.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 291, 4 September 1931, Page 9
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96NAUTILUS IS SILENT Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 291, 4 September 1931, Page 9
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