ROSS SEA WHALES

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1923, Page 6

ROSS SEA WHALES

A DANGEROUS VENTURE

EXPEDITION FROM SEATTLE.

(BI TEIBGKAPH.—SPECIAL TO THE POET.)

AUCKLAND, This Day. A correspondent at Seattle, writing to ,*•. '¥ e%v Zealand Herald" under date 17th September, says: "Ready to take part in a whaling venture in Boss Sea that wili rank as one of the most dangerous and spectacular ventures of the kind, the steam steel whalers Star L, Star 11., and Star 111., of Seattle, will leave this port in a few days and begin a 7000-mile voyage to Auckland, New Zealand, which port is to be their base ot operations for the next seven years Ihe three whalers were purchased recently by the Hvalfangat Rosshavet Company, of Sandefjord, Norway, from the United States Whaling Company. That whales exist in Ross Sea in abundance was reported years ago by Captain Roald Amundsen and by Captain Robeit Falcon Scott, the British naval explorer, who lost his life while seeking the South Pole. The Norwegian venture will utilise the knowledge'gamed by the two great explorers during their cruises inside the Antarctic ice barrier ■ iwo eteel steam whalers', and a 12,000----ton steamship equipped as huge floating whaling plant, are going from Noi?™ayt I°, thS, Ro? s Sea- There will meet the Star 1., Star H.,.and Star 111. The steamship' will servo both as a floating whaling plant and as the mother ship of the five whalers _ In charge of putting the Star 1., Star 11., and^btar 111. „,to commission and the Hvalfangst Rosshavet Company of Sandefjord is Captain Gustav Pettersen, a veteran Norwegian whaler of many years' experience. He' is the commodore of the little fleet of three ships. The three whaling stamen, were bu.lt in Seattle about ten years th v yaP^-m Pettersen is to command the Star I. the largest .of the three vessels, as well as to hava charge of the party until Auckland is reached In command of Star 11. is Captain 01° Iverson, another hardy Norse whaler i.-i a ,7 OUnSer man than his chief; while Captain Nels Hardwickson is to e•? -ar lIL The three «ttle vessels will sail m convoy formation, the Star 1., which is equipped with wireW, acting as mcthpi'-ship on the lon- voya-e men Jn6B^ 1 WIU CarrY total oi 4^ oT^ SdSo^iS^ The vessels were conditioned in Eagle Harbour, across Puget Sound fram Seattle, at the plant of the Winslow Marine Railway aiv i '-"M-ohuildin- Company and came.to Seattle to°day to load stores and as much coal as each can carry, including deck loads f O , the fuel supply will form one of the bi^Ct problems for the little vessel ° Captain Pettersen announced that H™ voyage will be via Honolulu where the dupe will refuel, and thence to Tahiti or Paeo Pago, before Auckland^ i reached. Captain Pettorson says he c.x Fr^Odavs 0'"1"01* thS 7000"!niie W