BENEATH POLAR SEAS
WILKINS EXPLORATION * PLANS FOR 1937. SUBMARINE 100 FEET LONG. LUnited Press Association — By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.! (Received 9 a.mj NEW YORK, July 24. The well-known Polar explorer, Sir Hubert Wilkins, arrived today from Germany on his way to South America, to join the National Geographic expedition to the Antarctic, whence he will return next March to begin preparations for his second undersea exploration of the North Polar seas in 1937. . Sir Hubert said he had asked for quotations from four builders for a new submarine, 100 feet long and 20 feet beam, to cost less than 100,000 dollars.
“The equipment for the vessel will cost another 100,000 dollars,” added Sir Hubert, “though I still have a lot of equipment left from the Nautilus. I hope my . new vessel will be ready for experimental cruises which I will probably make in Lake Erie in the winter of 1936-37, and 1 hope to start for the North in the spring of 1937.”
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Northern Advocate, 26 July 1935, Page 7
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