NEW ZEALANDER'S D.S.O

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 75, 21 December 1917, Page 4

NEW ZEALANDER'S D.S.O

ANTARCTIC HERO SINKS SUBMARINE. The circumstances in which { he D.S.O. was granted tn LieutenantCommander Frank Worsley, late of the Shackleton Antarctic Expedition, are narrated in ft letter received here from the High Commissioner. LicutenautCommnnder Worsley, who is a Now Zealander. was navigatine commander of Sir Ernest Shackleton's shin, the Endurance, and shoved with th'n leader . of the exneditinn the perils of the wonderful relief jonrnev after the vessel had heen crushed by the ice in tbo Woddell Sea. He came to- New Zenland with Sir Ernest Shackleton in connection with the. relief expedition to the Boss Sfl«. and then hurried tn England to take service with the Admiralty. ,„ ■ . "A New Zoabinder named worslay commanded a submarine, and was sent to take care of an oil steamer," writes the High Commissioner. "Accompanying him was a British destroyer. I'he 1 weather, which was had, increased toi { flvetit violence during the night, and, he lost the destroyer. In the morning a German submarine was encountered, which launched a torpedo. The noise made by tho storm was so bud tliitf Commaiider Worslev did not hear ine torpedo strike tlio ship., no sa . w l er settlinir <lown. He shipped round, discovered the submarine, and immediate Iγ sent her to the hottom. Theonly i member of tho German crow saved waa the commander, whom he took en. hoard, then took the oil steamer m hand, and brought her safely-to port. •