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...Hubert, financed chiefly by Lincoln Ellsworth who flew across the North Pole with Umberto Nobile and the late Roald Amundsen in the dirigible Norge and who may be a passenger in the submarine, plans to try his craft out under April ice off Halifax. Then he will proceed by way of London, Bergen and Tromso to Spitsbergen, whence he hopes to proceed mostly under water to Bering Sea. (In 1928 he flew an opposite course between those two regions...
Because Lincoln Ellsworth, who, with the late Captain Roald Amundsen and General Umberto Nobile flew in the Norge across the North Pole in 1926, contributed a large amount toward the $250,000 which Sir George Hubert Wilkins is raising to take an old Navy submarine renamed the Nautilus, across the Pole under the Arctic ice, the name of the Wilkins expedition last week was changed to the Wilkins-Ellsworth Expedition...
...commanded the Fram, Dr. Fridtjof Nansen's ship, on polar voyages in 1893; he and Dr. Nansen were the first white men to cross Greenland; in 1928 he served as expert adviser to rescuers of General Umberto Nobile's Italia expedition and searchers for his friend Roald Amundsen, lost off Tromso while attempting to rescue General Nobile...
...escort of police planes, followed it down to a landing in the midst of harbor traffic, deftly hurdled a menacing piece of driftwood, brought up within a stone's throw of the Battery seawall. The four men, in their five-year-old plane (which had already served the late Roald Amundsen in the Arctic and Capt. Frank Courtney in the Atlantic) had flown 4,670 mi. in 47 flying hours?nine days elapsed time...
...children." By that time the captain, with Students Eduard Zimmer, Fritz Albrecht, Franz Hack had taken off from the school's seaplane port at List, on the North Sea Island of Sylt. Their plane, a two-motored Dornier-Wal flying boat, was the same used by Roald Amundsen in his attempted Polar flight of 1925, and by Capt. Frank Courtney in an unsuccessful Atlantic flight...