"ALL RIGHT."

Northern Advocate, 19 June 1925, Page 5

"ALL RIGHT."

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. .. / , -v" •• v•• '• \ .y.rr.-r. \ .'>•> "•-> ' - LONDON, June 18. The news of Amundseil V by radiogram from the H<|inidaV JuW AB,, atatingr| * ' " • r - J' : ■ ./:W« arrived/at-'King'« all right, sat one o'clock ] this morning. .Signed: AMUNDSEN •' DIETRICHSEN SOHUJiTE OMDAHL LARSEN ' —A. and N;Z. Only six persons made the flying attempt to gain the North Pole—Captain .Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, each an observer in one of the planes; jSjalmar Riiser-Larsen and Lief Diettfchson, Norwegian naval lieutenants; •"and two mechanics —Oscar Omdal, a Norwegian, and Herr Feucht, a German. All other members of the expedition remained on the Farm, and Hobby.

No one connected with the expedition recognised any possibility of failure. •Each believed that the Pole- would be reached and the explorers back a,t their base within two days after the hop-off. Should one plane become disabled the other would carry all six men back to the base. That was the why two planes were used and why each started out with three passengers in its cockpit. The aeroplanes were Uuilt especially for the North Pole flight at the Dornier plant, in Pisa, Italy. They were all-metal machines constructed of dmjalumum, a newly fabricated material caimed to be as light as aluminum, and as strong as steel. The planes each had two Rolls-Royce engines, each engine with a horse-power of-360. Their span was 72 feefc and length ; 52 feet. They were equipped with neither wheels nor ice runners. Their bottoms were fashioned like sleds, enabling them to land on either wa,ter or •eoow-covered ice. The vessel in'which Amundsen voyaged to the Arctic is the Norwegian iiaval transport Farm, and should not be confused, owing to the similarity,, in the names, -with Nansen's famous ship Farm. . Tne latter, an auxiliary •chooner, was the vessel in which Nansen accomplished his celebrated drift toward the North Pole in 1893. On that occasion he got nearer to the Pole than anyone had ever done before. The Farm was specially built with point ed bows and stern and sloping sides, to resist the Arctic ice, and throughout the entire drift she went, through the icefields without being crushed, her special desiign resulting in the vessel being lifted to the surface of the ice. It was in the Farm that Amundsen carried out his expedition to the Antarctic in 1910. For the purposes of the present adventure the Norwegian Government placed at the explorer's disposal the transport Farm.