FAMOUS EXPLORER
Tributes to Dr. Charcot (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, September 17. Warm tributes are paid in the Press to the work of Dr. Jean Charcot, the famous French Polar explorer and scientist who,' with 32 other members of the crew of his four-masted barque Pourquoi Pas. was drowned yesterday when the vessel was totally wrecked off Iceland.
Dr. Charcot was well known among English scientists and had done valuable research work in Arctic and Antarctic waters. The president of the Royal Geographical Society. Admiral Sir William Goodenough, described him as one of the most gallant of Polar explorers. During the war Dr. Char cot was placed in command of a new submarine chaser of his own design, and was given the rank of lieutenantcommander in the British Navy. He was decorated with the British Distinguished Service Cross.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 304, 19 September 1936, Page 11
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138FAMOUS EXPLORER Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 304, 19 September 1936, Page 11
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