WILKINS FOR ARCTIC.
REQUEST FOR SUBMARINE. ELABORATE ARRANGEMENTS. WASHINGTON, May 13. Sir Hubert Wilkins has written requesting the Navy Department to allow him to charter a decommissioned submarine, 0126, for a trip to tho Arctic. If tho craft is mado available it will bo rebuilt and equipped with machinery to enable it to boro through ice. Tho explorer says ho will take a balloon for aerial observations, also wireless and television apparatus.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20564, 15 May 1930, Page 9
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