MAGNETIC SURVEY
INDIAN OCEAN TRIP THE RESEARCH NEARLY READY [from a special cohrkspon dk.nt] LONDON, Jan. 30 The Research, the sailing ship built at 'a cost of £IOO,OOO to make a magnetic survey in the Indian Ocean, will soon be ready for launching at Dartmouth. Difficulty lias been met in finding a youthful crew with experience of sailing ships, and her captain, Lieu-tenant-Commander D. H. Fryer, K.N,, has recently completed a voyage to Australia and back in a grain-carrying windjammer, as he says, "solely for experience." I'lte party on the Research will collect data of magnetic variation, investigate atmospheric electricity, take meteorological observations particularly in the upper air, with pilot balloons —deep-sea soundings and perhaps stiidv marine biology. The Research herself must be nonmagnetic. She is built almost entirely of wood and bronze and the crew will not be permitted to carry steel penknives nor to have metal buttons on their clothing, liven paper clips will bo of brass.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23274, 17 February 1939, Page 5
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159MAGNETIC SURVEY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23274, 17 February 1939, Page 5
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