AN EPIC STORY
DRIFTING ACROSS THE NORTH POLE
ADVENTURES WITH THE CREW OF TEE IuAUDE. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPIBIQHT.) (SIDNEY SUN'CABLE.) (Received 25th August, 2 p.m.) ' VANCOUVER, 24th August. Advices from Nome give interesting stories by Captain Westing and five of the crew, of the exploring ship Maude. They tell how cross-currents in the Polar seas interfered'with their hopes of drifting across the earth's crown. All enjoyed good health excepting the assistant engineer, Syversen, who died two yeara ago. At one time the Maude was-almost capsized, being raised" twenty feet out of the water by ice pressure, but when the pressure ceased the vessel luckily settled down on an even keel. ' , Radio communication was kept up throughout each winter with Spitzbergen, and they often heard the American broadcasters. Polar bears were numerous, twenty-two being shot from the ship's deck. The coldest weather experienced "was 70 degree 3 below freezing point, and the furthest north that the Maude drifted was to latitude 77, longitude 146 west.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 48, 25 August 1925, Page 6
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164AN EPIC STORY Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 48, 25 August 1925, Page 6
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