ARRIVAL OF THE CREW OF THE POLARIS AT PETERHEAD.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1695, 9 January 1874, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE CREW OF THE POLARIS AT PETERHEAD.

[SCOTSMAN, SEPT, 20.] ■ c • ■ " ' ' Our' FetJei^icad ; correspondent ' telegraphs that the crew;, pi . Captain H,aXVB Ar|;ic exploring ship Polaris, 'or those' who remained 1 . , after,Uaptain Tyson ,ag.d his compam'ons got "^'adrift on an ice-floes, az*d performed thp remarkable voyage which was fully noticed at 'I i} '-tlietnlie of their rescued we're picked' up by •the whaler Ravenscraig, on the 20th June lastj J 2o miiessouth' of Cape ' York, in Lancaster Sound, lat., 74 N., long. 87 W. When , found' they"' were ' proceeding southwards in , & boat which had been constructed from the ' •^■'■'kKij^s 'bulwarks by the chief officer, 1 Mr "r~-—C-*h«rter.- — Previous to thistime'the fast sailing ships had all passed through Melville Sound. The Ravenscraig coining across iihe' Dundee whaler Arctic a few days subsequently, one-half of the crew were transf erred , on board the latter vessel, as she had already 20 whales, and consequently had the pros- ,. peet of returning home early. On^the ; 21st^ August, the Arctic having .coinpletect^ Y•! ? h?^j complement, went jin search' .,of -.the! ''"" j&avenscraig) which .. wWi founil fishing off Cape Kater, at the entrance .of Baffin's; Say, and the other portion of the Polaris' I crew were taken, on board. The Arctic put into r '- '.'■'■ 'TetetKead windbonnd, bat sailed to Dundee with the Polaris' crew. The Arctic arrived .in the.Tay yesterday, All well on board;