BEAR OF OAKLAND

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 77, 13 March 1934, Page 7

BEAR OF OAKLAND

Experiences in Far South GALES AND HURRICANES J By Telegraph—Press Association DUNEDIN, March 12, After 14 days of gales, hurricanes and mountainous seas, the Byrd Expedition supply ship Bear of Oakland arrived in Fort Chalmers this afternoon 5> looking little the worse for her experi!ence except for the loss of the bowsprit, which snapped off while tho vessel was I forging her way through the pack-ice in I the Bay of Whales. j “Serious gales broken only by hum- | canes’’, was how Lieutenant English, j who is in command, described the trip. 2 “Sometimes it was bad and when it ! changed it got worse. ’ ’ The Bear of Oakland established conJ tact with the Discovery, which left | Dunedin early in February with a j doctor and stores, in the Ross Sea about, j February 21 or 22 and the doctor and | j stores were transferred to the Bear of j j Oakland, which then returned to the ? ! Bay of Whales. The bay was frozen, in ! ! and the vessel had difficulty in entering ’ I and greater difficulty in getting out, as | ; the ice was fast freezing up. The ternI pcrature was 30 degrees below zero for j t j 50 miles north of the Barrier. | i The Bear of Oakland was in the bay j ) eight hours and was none too soon in | | getting out. Battling continually j | against the elements, she found herself - i being blown down on the ice field in a I , gale of 75 miles an hour with interI i mittent gusts of 100 miles an hour, I I while the ship was rolling 50 degrees j ! on each side and shipping green seas, j ; After two days of this they iouglit I : their way Io the east, where they bad 1 . a continuation of gales. ’ I’lie Bear of Oakland will remain at. ’ Port Chalmers till December. !.