GHOSTLY PARADE
FLEET OF ICEBERGS 1 N ANTARCTIC GLOOM 000 SIGHTED IN THREE DaYS (Special to United Press Assn, hum the Byrd Expedition.) (Received Dec. 29, 5.5 p.m.) AT SEA, Dec. 28. The Jacob Ruppert is s till creeping through icebergstrewn seas and the high (wind, which subsided this morning, was renewed again in the south-east. The ghostly parade of icebergs continues, in all the world there is no sighp like it, a whole fleet of them ploughing out >,f the gloom, with waves crashing over them and the surf breaking and flying over their whole surfaces. Their fabulous shapes and. designs defy description. Captain Gjertsen estimates that 600 have been sign ed since Monday. “In all my life I have never seen soi many bergs at one time” he said. “No matter (where we are we cannot turn ;ro escape them, and there are always more.’’ During a brief lull in the wind today Admiral Byrd ordered full speed ahead eastward in an effort to make up the four days’ lost time. Between times of drilling the men are handling their emergency equipment and a, “man o' war’ ’ sea anchor has been made |to keep the ship’s head to windward even if the engines fail. v At noon the ship’s positij i was 66.1 deg. south and 131.10 deg. west.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12140, 30 December 1933, Page 5
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