LOST IN ROSS SEA.
A WHALE CHASERINVERCARGILL, March 4. Word was received by wireless this morning of the loss of the whale chaser iPagadroma, in the Ross Sea. From the meagre details contained in the message, it is gathered that the vessel was crushed in the ice during a voyage of approximately SOO 1 miles through an ice-covered area, and sank. The wireless message merely stated that the ship had been abandoned, and that the crew had been taken off tyThe Pagadroma was one of the six chasers attached to the Norwegian factory ship C. A. Larsen, which is now returning from Ross Sea. She was a vessel of 95 tons, and had been specially built in Norway for work in the ice.
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Grey River Argus, 5 March 1929, Page 3
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