1250 MILES IN ICE
SOVIET SHIP’S ORDEAL
UNPRECEDENTED DR IUT
(Eloc. Tel. 1 Copyright—United Press Assn.) MOSCOW, Dec. 27.
A wireless S.O.S. revealed that the ice-breaker Cheluskin is now near Wrangol Island, having drifted the unprecedented distance of 1250 miles since she was first imprisoned in the ice three months ago. Aeroplanes are being, scut in the hope of rescuing the Crew and ’passengers.
Hutments have been built and eight months’ stores for 60 persons accumulated in Providence Bay, on the Chukotsk Peninsula.
A message of .December 1 reported that a change of wind saved the lives of 02 Russians, including several women, who were the crew and passengers on the Cheluskin, which, for over a month, had been trapped in icepacks to the north-west of Behring Straits.
Two days later a further message slated that the 'Cheluskin was again icebound, and ice-floes were carrying her northwards. The commander reported that he feared they were doomed to spend the winter icebound, unless he could find a north-west current which would drive her back into the* open polar seas north of Wrangel Island.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18283, 29 December 1933, Page 7
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