AFTER THREE YEARS
LOST ship APPEALS. Lloyd’s recently received * report Unit a ship, abandoned three years ago has reappeared. Tn August, 1924, the motor schooner Lady Kradersley, bcloimiim to the Hudson Bay Co., set out’fo'? the Canadian Northern Police post-, carrying provisions, and intending to collect a cargo of furs \ message from Nome stated that she had drifted ashore at Kulichum Day (Siberia), and was being plundered by the natives. If this report was true she. had drifted about 600 miles, when seven miles off Point Barrow. Alaska, she -was caught in heavy ice-pack, and could make no progress. Soon she became surrounded by close-packed ice, and was seriously damagedAttempts were made to reach open water by hacking channels in the ice, hut time after time the crew were forced to return to the ship exhausted. All hopes of saving her were given up, and the ship was abandoned, and reported totally lost. Government preparations were made for sending • seaplane to rescue the marooned crew, who were, however, subsequently saved by the United States steamer Boxer.
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Evening Star, Issue 19660, 13 September 1927, Page 10
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176AFTER THREE YEARS Evening Star, Issue 19660, 13 September 1927, Page 10
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