A HERO OF THE SEAS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 80, 1 October 1924, Page 5

A HERO OF THE SEAS

COMMANDER WORSLEY SAVES

HIS CREW.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRianT.)

(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CAELB ASSOCIATION.)

(Received Ist October, noon.)

LONDON, 30th September. Commander Frank Worsley is the hero of a thrilling wreck of the auxiliary motor schooner Katherine Annie, which was swept by a gale in tho vicinity of the Orkneys. Despite tho darkness and the raging seas, Commander Worsloy, who commanded tho schooner, jumped with a rope from tho bowsprit and struggled ashore, thus enabling tho whole crew to be saved just in the nick of time, as tho schooner broke up rapidly.

Commander Worsley is well known in Iv ew Zealand, and was the chief navigator of the ill-fated Quest when Sir Ernest Shuckleton made an attempt tci reacli the South Polar regions, but died on the journey. He was educated at l'endalton High School, Christchurch, and first came into prominence as Captain of the Enduranco in Shackloton's South Pole Expedition. Commander Worsley navigated Shackleton's boat during the famous voyage from Elephant Island to Sonth Georgia Ho served in tho Great War from 1916 to 1919, being mentioned in dispatches and receiving the D.S.O. and bars, and <\\v •?•;• H° was lenfc to the War oil.cc as Director for Arctic Equipment and Transport, and was stationed on tho Archangel Front in Northern Russia JJunng tho war he commanded two mystery ' ships, H.M.S. Cricket f-un-boat), and No. 24 (monitor) lo