GALLANT SKIPPER
MAN WHO HELPED SHACKLETON.
Another hero of the' Antarctic has passed on. Captain Luis Pardo, wfco rescued 22 members of Shackleton s expedition from Elephant Island'2o years ago, has died at Santiago in Chile. After the Endurance was crushed by ice and sank in the Antarctic the members of the expedition put off in lifeboats and landed on a small piece of land known as Elephant Island. They were- in a desperate situation, for they had no wireless. Shackleton went off for help in the boat now comfortably resting at Dulwich School, but three attempts to rescue the men failed. When they had been four months on the island, and 'hope was almost lost, Captain Pardo, skipper of the Chilean tug Yelcho, managed to take them off to safety. His heroism was rewarded, and he was decorated by the British Government. Sir Ernest' Shackleton expressed his gratitude to the gallant skipper, and ever since the rescue Lady Shackleton, in her great kindness of heart, had kept >n touch with him. Only last year Captain Pardo came to London for the unveiling of the statue of Shackleton,
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1935, Page 22 (Supplement)
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