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Amundsen -Ellsworth -Nobile. While her Norwegian and American commanders progressed in triumph to Tromso and took ship, with supplies of men, materials and hydrogen gas, to meet her at Spitzbergen, the dirigible Norge obeyed the commands of her Italian chief, Colonel Nobile, hurrying over Europe by day and night. Her landing at Pulham Field, England, was accomplished after much maneuvering. Various supercargoes were discharged and she left, the evening after arriving, for Oslo. Grey morning found her feeling her way along the Danish coast. Soon after noon she dipped to the royal palace at Oslo, to Explorer Amundsen...
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...
...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 in the Fokker monoplane Josephine Ford poleward from Spitzbergen...
...tour, and with 45 companions waved goodby as the Chantier slipped out of dock. Going down the bay, a sleek yacht escorted the Chantier with her owner, Vincent Astor, aboard, and other Byrd-backers, including John D. Rockefeller Jr., Edsel Ford, F. Trubee Davison, Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett. Tromso, Norway...