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...next year after having been within 97 miles of the pole, England made a knight of him. Five years later, he set out again. Terrific ice packs wrecked his ship. He and his men camped on an ice floe for six months, were finally rescued by a Chilean trawler. In 1921, English bells were rung as Sir Ernest sailed away on another white voyage, his last. The following year on Jan. 5, he died of a, heart attack off South Georgia Island, 2,800 mi. northeast of Explorer Byrd's later Little America. When Lady Shackleton heard...
...ship-to-shore mail plane catapulted from the liner lie de France, flown by Naval Lieut. Louis Demougeot, forced down at sea, was rescued by the British trawler Children's Friend. Temporarily the ship-shore service has been discontinued...
Channel swimmers take off from Cap Gris Nez, France. Last week the Breton fishing trawler Sainte Therese de L'Enfant Jesus was wallowing past Cape Gray Nose when Captain Jean Marie Bougrad espied a body that did not swim...
...Davidson, Under Secretary for the Admiralty, announced in the House that 37 antiquated British warships are shortly to be junked for what they will bring. Included in the list are 18 destroyers, 7 submarines, 3 cruisers, 1 "drifter" (fishing boat taken over during the War and employed as naval trawler...
Coming. The Norwegian trawler Albr. W. Selmer puffed into Horten, Norway, late one evening last week. The harbor was alive with small craft; the town had waited up. As explorer Roald Amundsen and his five comrades stepped ashore, home at last from their try for the North Pole by airplane, the night roared with cheers. Milling crowds, pelting roses, shouting greetings, escorted the pilgrims to the Navy Club, where a midnight banquet awaited them. This feast lasted well into the dawn, when newspaper photographers swarmed in to begin the new day with pictures. Sleepy though he was, Pilot Lincoln Ellsworth...