POLAR SEA WRECK
FRENCH EXPLORER LOST ICELAND COAST DISASTER ONLY ONE SURVIVOR THIRTY BODIES FOUND (Klt-r. Tel. Copyright—l'nilcd Press Assn.) (Reed. Sept. 17. 2 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, Sept. Hi. _ Dr. .1. R. Chaivot, leader of a French polar expedition aboard the Pourqnoi Pas and the crew were drowned with one exception, when a storm sank the vessel on the Iceland roast, on which Ml I bodies have been washed up. Hr. (’ha rent sailed for Angmagsalik during the present summer to bring back to France Robert Gessgi and Michel Perez, who, with Paul Emile Victor, intended to cross Greenland hv sleigh and carry out scientific investigations.
Victor remained in Greenland. It is iniflei'tsood that Gessai and Perez were aboard the Pourqnoi Pas.
A doctor of medicine and a captain in tin- Pn-nvli navy, Jean Baptiste Charcot was the commander of several Antarctic expeditions in tin- Pourqnoi Fas, and was the.author of a number of publications on hydrography and navigation. lie was horn in 18X2.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19122, 17 September 1936, Page 6
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