Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City of New York", a description of which follows, is the ship used by Admiral Richard E. Byrd on his voyage to Little America, and has now been fitted out as a museum of his discoveries. At present the ship is lying in Boston not far from the South Station on Summer Street...
...City of New York", veteran sailing ship of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, has won the right to be called a gallant ship, not alone from her unfaltering battles with the Antarctic gales and towering ice, carrying men and supplies of the Expedition; she has a history as a ship alone...
...first voyages north with the sealers, she carried as a member of her crew a youth named Ronald Amundsen, whose achievements later became famous in the annals of polar exploration. It was Captain Amundsen who, in 1926, recommended the staunch old ship to Admiral Byrd for the long voyage southward to the Rose. Barrior, where Little America, the base camp of the Antarctic Expedition, was later to be located...
...visitor steps to the deck of the "City of New York", he is greeted by a guide who is thoroughly familiar with the Expedition, its work, and its achievements. On the deck he is shown the quarters where Admiral Byrd lived and planned and commanded the 84 men of his Expedition. His quarters are preserved nearly intact. Visitors are shown the chart room, where the navigation of the ship on her long and difficult voyages was carried out. Farther aft, in the radio room, what is considered to be one of the most powerful instruments afloat, is to be inspected...
Meanwhile at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, nearest airport to Garden City, the 1911 flight was to be reenacted by Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones in a 1911 Curtiss "pusher," and by Dean Smith, crack airmail pilot and Antarctic flyer of the Byrd expedition, in a Pilgrim monoplane. One sack of mail was to be dropped by parachute near the Mineola postoffice, the remainder flown to Newark for transfer to regular airmail planes...