ILL-FATED SEALING VESSEL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13352, 9 April 1914, Page 3

ILL-FATED SEALING VESSEL.

CRUISE OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS.

(Special to Herald.)

CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The sealing vessel Southern Cross, whioh haa been wrecked off the Newfoundland coast with a loss of 75 lives, ought to be remembered by New Zealanders for her pioneering work m Antarctic exploration, and for her visit to these shores 14 years ago. It was m the Southern Cross that Mr C. E. Borchgrevinck made his adventurous expedition to. the great ice lands of the fa_south, a .doughty forerumner of Shackleton and Scott. In 164 degreesi west longitude the ship was laid alongside th© great ice barrier as if it had been a quay. On her return from the circumsolar continent she called at Half Moon hay, Stewart Island, New Zealand's most southerly telegraph office, and a photograph of her, taken there as she lay off and on outside the harbor, shows her as a substantial barque-rigged craft, with auxiliary steam. The Southern Cross was one of the old northern whaler's, strongly framed and stoutly planked with oak, and her bow timbers were unusually massive, as was neces-, sary m ,the whale hunters' ice punching work.