CITY OF NEW YORK
DODGING BROKEN FLOES.
HELPED BY FAVOURABLE WINDS. * ' By Russell aboard the City of New York, February 25, Lat. 70, Ibng. 178. (Received Feb. 25, at 10 p.m.) Last evening we began to encounter scattered pack' ice, much before it had been expected, and all night the ship was running before a favourable wind, dodging in and out between broken floes and large pieces of pack. This morning a strong wind from the south-east is driving us north through heavy masses of ice, around which the ship works its way easily, although occasionally bringing up against one with a force that would smash an unprotected steel ship. We expect to encounter the whalers at the northern edge of the ice pack, and if possible we will .transfer the dogs aboard one of the bigger ships, and get them good quarters in case of storms. We hope the whalers may some time enter the Bay of Whales and bring out our two planes, which could not be taken aboard the City ,of New, York.
As I finish writing the pack is getting heavier, and the ship is moving more slowly between heavier cakes. It is now much colder.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20961, 26 February 1930, Page 9
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