LOST MEN OF ITALIA
SEARCH EXPEDITION SHIP DEPARTS ' ALBERTINFS QUEST (United Service) COPENHAGEN, Thursday. Signor Gianni Albertini's expedition, in search of the lost crew of the airship Italia, sailed today from Bergen, Norway, on board the Heiman, which has been rechristened the Sucai. The ship is equipped with long-wave and short-wave wireless, and is provisioned for 18 months. She carries sledge dogs specially brought from Greenland. More dogs are to be picked up at Kings Bay. One of the sledges also is equipped with wireless. The first searches will be made between Svalbard (Spitzbergen) and Franz Josef Land.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 665, 17 May 1929, Page 9
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98LOST MEN OF ITALIA Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 665, 17 May 1929, Page 9
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