OCEAN TRAGEDY
EXPLORER’S DEATH
STORM SINKS VESSEL
MISHAP OFF ICELAND. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received September 17, 12.5 p.m. COPENHAGEN, Sept. 16.
Dr. Charcot, the leader of a French Polar expedition aboard the Pourquoi Pas, and the crew were drowned with one exception when a storm sank the vessel on the Iceland coast, on which 30 bodies have been washed up. Dr. Charcot sailed for Angmagsalik in the present summer to bring back to France Robert Gessai and Michel Perez who, with Paul Emile Victor, intended to cross Greenland by sleigh and carry out scientific investigations. Victor remained in Greeland and it is understood that Gessai and Perez were aboard the Pourquoi Pas.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 248, 17 September 1936, Page 9
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114OCEAN TRAGEDY Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 248, 17 September 1936, Page 9
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