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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...
Amundsen. The Norwegian and U. S. commanders of the Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile expedition finished unloading equipment from the gunboat Heimdal at Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, and settled themselves to await the arrival of their Italian colleague in their dirigible Norge, long overdue from Leningrad. The first days of all-night sunshine found them skiing on the slopes of Mount Zeppelin*, eating seal-steak at Sailmaker Roenne's house, putting finishing touches to the dirigible's mooring mast and hangar...
Besides Mr. Dix and Miss Wilson, especially good work is done by Edna May Oliver, the sorrowful comedienne, who does the out-of-town hymn book buyer in search of a thrill to perfection; and "Gunboat" Smith, who, as the minion of the law, proves that the cauliflower industry is sometimes capable of producing something besides real estate agents...
Later the new Chairman called upon the Chilean and Peruvian delegates between whom he is to preside. The Peruvians toasted him aboard the Peruvian gunboat, Rimac. The Chileans feted him on shore. For the time being felicitations took the place of strife and even halted the work of the Plebiscite Law Committee...
...Greek Government, grateful to my father for his work as Chairman of the Greek Refugees' Commission established by the League of Nations, had promised to place a gunboat at our disposal for the crossing from Corinth to Itea. Unfortunately the gunboat would not work and the Greek Government could only supply us with an auxiliary tender 65 feet long...