BOUND FOR FROZEN SOUTH.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20917, 6 January 1930, Page 5

BOUND FOR FROZEN SOUTH.

THE CITY OF NEW YORK. HAZARDS OF THE ICE-PACK. Faring forth on her second hazardous vayage to the frozen south, the Bvrd Antarctic expedition ship City of New York sailed' from Dunedin yesterday afternoon, but owing to the heavy southwest wale _ that was blowing it was deemed advisable by the captain and the harbour authorities to put into Port Chalmers until the gale moderated. It is expected that, the vessel will' put" to sea at daybreak to-day. The vessel’s departure was witnessed by a large crowd* a pd when she was towed from her berth at the Rattray street wharf shortly lifter 2 p.m. cheery were exchanged between the crew and their friends ashore. It is exactly 13 months since the City of New York left Dunedin for the far south with Commander Byrd and his 42 comrades on the expedition to the South irole. The barque, having, made a suecessiul voyage through the ice-pack each way, arrived back in Otago Harbour early m March last year. She was laid up, m winter quarters, and after being thoroughly overhauled in dry dock at irort Chalmers came to Dunedin some Wee i to load Provisions and bunker coal. The ship was ready for sea three weeks ago, but her departure was postponed owing to the bad condition of the ice-pack. The ice was later in breaking up this summer, and no advantage would nave been gained by sending the City ° York to sea earlier. Bailing ordjers were received by the captain by radio from Commander Byrd on Friday night. These orders were issued from the expedition’s base on the Barrier after Commander Byrd had received. favourable reports concerning the breaking up of the ice-pack from the. captains of the whaling . factory ships, these vessels are now proceeding through , the ice to the Ross Sea. ; . The City of New York is carrying a nui shipment of provisions and coal. She is thus equipped for any emergency that Hi? S ler , e - is ai ways the possibi°l the ship being caught in the ice, ■and should this happen she would be . hemmejl in for 12 months, but there would •be sufficient food on board to feed the crew and the members of the expedition who have been located on the Barrier i J ve , ssel a E aln reached New Zealand. ine barque is carrying an emerwm ™ SUPP J i° f agge , d coal on deck. She will, proceed to the edge of the ice under onnnf^ 1 1 ln ,. order i to conserve the coal Barrier f ° r the return Voyage from the

r J be Crt? of New York is expected to reach the ice-pack about January 17, but I ?T arr uT e the £e earlier if the winds are favourable. The expedition supply Prl£ m a e n le T anor Bolling will leave Dunedin about January 12, and when the two ships meet over 1200 miles south they Th/s wi?T e t d throu / h the i ice together! will hTlt a ® af e procedure, as help will be at hand in the event of one shin ?ht etm £ T lth - tro " ble "hen steanf, c through the ice. ■ If all goes well thS HtuT Jh w Yo £ k and the Eleanor’ Belli 11 * r T each the Bay of Whales Pt the end of January. No time will be lost in embarking Commander Byrd and the members of the expedition and loadojjpmment, ns it will be necessary for the ships to leave the Bay of Whales not * at ® r .than the middle of February. The I f e^ l commence to form about the end of February, ao that the shins must h? s - e n o time on the return voyage! If the ? blp s have a good passage through the ice field they should arrive back at Dun Ih.“ b S , ; r e in nf 9R carries a crew Zealanders! d ’ mclud,n * a number of New .Sir ferred from the Eleanor Bolling to the S°wast b es heV Tl, to^ ha 7 e H en l ost in Rra ® les - The doctor left the Kosmas m£n? e i.rS," ’ 7hi<i "portal a-WSs svsug. ms Ti ““ - To our friends and the citizens of tesy f extend^ ln f dDeSS S j° W “ and 4^e couremended to me during my stay of over nine , months in Dunedin and Port Sll S -^ The hospitality extended [o r always remain indelible in my mind. I am leaving Dunedin with a fee! ca?rv f awil te ? tment satisfaction, and awa y happy recollections of mv sojourn among true hospitable friends* I look forward to my return great !i a 1 SUt u‘ and ' 6incei- ely hope that it will personal 6 rent K 2° d -/i? rtun i e to “me into personal contact with each and everyone fepeSitrVo'alU’ B " brbK happiness and