SIR JAMES CLARK ROSS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19150, 5 November 1927, Page 28

SIR JAMES CLARK ROSS.

Fifty-sis days out from Sandofjord, Norway, the whaler Sir James Clark Ross arrived on Monday afternoon at Port Chalmers. The passage was uneventful, a stop having been made at Norfolk, Virginia, for bunker coal, and the vessel afterwards came through the Panama Canal. Last season's whale oil was discharged at New York. The steamer then went to Sandef.iord to be refitted during the winter months. While there a flenching platform was fitted so that whale carcases can bo handled thereon when the sea becomes too rough for flenching to be done alongside. Last season the sister ship, C. A. Larson, owed a good deal of her success to her having been fitted to handle, carcases on deck. The Sir James Clark Ross took in water and fresh provisions at Dunodin, and sailed on Thursday morning for the whaling baso at Stewart Island, sailing thence for the Ross Sea early this month. Each mother ship has a fleet of good whale chasers, and the two new chasers, which are expected to arrive at Stewart Island this week, will bo included in the Sir James Clark Ross's outfit. The C. A. Larßen is expected to arrive at Port Chalmers, about November 9th for water and provisions, before proceeding to Stewart Island to take her departure for Ross Sea.