BARQUE LOST
FRENCH EXPEDITION
ONLY ONE SURVIVOR
(Received September 17, 12.50 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, September. 16.
Dr. J. B. Charcot, leader of a French Polar expedition aboard the wooden barque Pourquoi-pas (449 tons), and all except one member of the crew, were drowned when the vessel sank in a storm off the Iceland coast, on which 30 bodies were washed up.
Dr, Charcot sailed for Angmagsalik, Greenland, this .summer to bring back to France Robert- Gessai and Michel Perez, who, with Paulemile Victor, intended to cross Greenland by sleigh and carry out scientific investigations.
Victor remained in Greenland, and it is understood that Gessai and Perez were aboard the Pourquoi-pas. " ;
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 68, 17 September 1936, Page 9
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