ILL-FATED ITALIA.
SEARCH FOR MISSING CREW. (United Service). COPENHAGEN, May 16. Provisioned for eighteen months, Signor Gianni Albertini’s expedition to search for the missing crew of the ill-fated Italia, sailed from Bergen aboard'tire Heiman, which has been rechristened the Sucai and equipped with both long and short wave wireless. The vessel carries sledge dogs specially brought from Greenland. More dogs will be picked up at King’s Bay. One of tho sledges also is equipped with wireless. The first searches will be made between Savalbird and Franz Josef Land.
Signor Albertini, who participated in tho Italia’s expedition as a skiier, will lead the expedition in search of the six missing men who wore carried off when tho airship struck the ice and the balloon portion drifted eastward. Italian bankers and industrialists provided the funds with which the sealing vessel Heiman was purchased. Piloted by the Norwegian, Captain Jacobsen, the noted Arctic navigator, tho vessel will proceed to the northern coast of NorthEast Island, Grand Gilles, Victory Islands, Wyches Islands, and the northern and western coasts of Franz Josef Land, and ski parties and dog sieges will, explore the pack ice.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 142, 17 May 1929, Page 8
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189ILL-FATED ITALIA. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 142, 17 May 1929, Page 8
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