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Byrd. Off the frozen coast of Spitzbergen, with a blizzard raging, came Commander Richard E. Byrd with his U. S. comrades and airplanes aboard the Chantier. They were blocked from Kings Bay's one pier by the Norwegian gunboat Heimdal (she was coaling), and had to cast anchor half a mile offshore. Making a raft out of heavy planking and four lifeboats, they labored all one night at the ticklish task of hoisting from the hold delicate wings and fuselages and towing them in on the raft. The Hobby, Amundsen's 1925 baseship chartered this year by Byrd...
Byrd. Commander Richard E. Byrd, his men and airplanes, rode the high seas in their steel ship Chantier toward Tromso, where there waited for him an ice pilot, thoughtfully engaged for Byrd by Explorer Amundsen to keep the Chantier's hull uncrushed by ice between Tromso and Spitzbergen. Byrd flashed congratulations to Captain Wilkins upon his reconnoissance flight to 73° 30' N. (TIME, April 19). There was, allegedly, no race among the three parties, no rivalry. During the next weeks they intended to talk when possible by radio, assist whoever meets disaster...
Cutting across the north seas the S. S. Chantier, bearing Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd and his 45 other Polar pilgrims with their two planes and accessory equipment, approached Tromso, Norway, last week. They planned to proceed to Kings Bay, Spitzbergen...
Byrd. Tom, Dick and Harry shook hands in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Tom and Harry went back to their respective jobs (Harry is Governor of Virginia), and their brother Dick went ahead with his ? getting men and freight shaken down, stowed and shipshape aboard the S.S. Chantier as she steamed from the pier. The freight was particularly troublesome, and the ship paused overnight off Staten Island before heading across the ocean for Tromso, Norway, where Dick ? Commander Richard E. Byrd ? will lay in whatever supplies or equipment he still needs for his flights next month...
...Chantier's first port of call, where she will pick up an ice-skipper to take her to Kings Bay, Spitzbergen...