BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.
THE RELIEF VOYAGE. TERRA NOVA SAILING TO-MORROW. At 5 o'clock on Saturday morning the British. Antarctic Expedition shii> Terra Nova will leave Lyttelton on her relief voyage to the- Antarctic. It was at first intended that tho ship should soil at 7 a.m., but the Commander. E. R. 0. R. Evans, 8.N., informed a Christckurch
"Press" reporter that ho had decided to leave two hours earlier. He chained that at this period of tho year tho sea breeze generally started to blow in the forenoon, and rapidly freshened, and as tho Terra Nova, which was not a highpowered ship, would be in deep trim leaving port, ho was desirous of getting a good offing early in tho morning, so as to get round Banks Peninsula without delay, and before the wind freshened too much.
Tho Terra Nova, which has completed a very extensive overhaul, is now in splendid order from the freshly-gilded wind vanes, with their pennants at tho mast heads to water-lino. The ship is fully coaled for her three months' voyage, and has over 500 tons of coal on board. Tho lonic, which arrived from London on Sunday, has discharged the balance of tho relief stores from England, and these aro now being loaded into the Terra Nova, together with a quantity of provisions and goods purchased in New Zealand. The Terra Nova will bo a full ship when sho sails, although she will not be as deeply laden as when sho first went south in 1910. A quantity of fresh mutton and beef will be taken on board to-day, and stored in the ice-house for consumption by tho ship's crew and tho members of Captain Scott's shore party, who, doubtless, will greatly appreciate this addition to their fare after their two years' sojourn in the Antarctic. Included in the cargo of the Terra Nova is a largo quantity of Christmas dainties sent from England and from New Zealand friends for the members of the shore party, and it is confidently expected that the reunion of members of the expedition when the ship reaches. M'Murdo Sound will bo a happy one.
The departure of the Terra Nova will be quiet, and entirely without ceremony, and in view of the early hour will be witnessed only by a few relatives and friends of the ship's company. •
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1622, 13 December 1912, Page 8
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390BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1622, 13 December 1912, Page 8
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