LONG DRIFT.
LIFE ON THE MAUDE. IN THE POLAR SEAS. 8Y CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received August 25, 1.50 p.m. VANCOUVER, Aug. 24. Advices from Nome give interesting stories by Captain Westing and five of the crew of the exploring ship Maiidc, of how cross-currents in the Polar Seas interfered with their hopes of drifting across the earth’s crown. A'l enjoyed good health, excepting the assistant engineer, Sylversen, who died two years ago. At one time the Maude was almost capsized. She was raised twenty feet out of the water by ice pressure, but when it ceased the vessel luckily settled on an even keel. Radio, communication was kept up each winter with Spitzbergen, and the crew often heard American broadcasting. Polar bears were numerous, and twenty-two were shot from the ship’s deck. The coldest weather experienced was 70 below freezing point. The furthest north the Maude drifted was latitude 66. longitude 146 west. —Sydney Sun Cable.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 25 August 1925, Page 9
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