A SORRY MESS
SUBMARINE TRIP TO POLE. ...!sJR H. WILKINS CRITICISED. (Australian Press Association.) ,'Recei' ed this dav at 10.15 a.m.) 'ADELAIDE, July 12. J. Jansen, an engineer on the American motorship, Sawokla, which anived hqre, described the attempt by Sir Hubert, Wilkins to reach the North Pole in the , submarine, Nautilus as the “sorriest mess” lie had ever been in. Jansen was second engineer on the Nautilus. He. said that four weeks before the day on which the plunge on to the ice was made, the men on board knew that Wilkins did not intend to make a serious attempt to reach his objective, and every , man on the vessel was SCcll’Gcl • • “We. all knew of the poor condition of the submarine for we had lost the 'stern diving rudder, but, of this Wilkins ordered tis to diver We macld the dive successfully, but stayed under' the ice ' only br ton minutes. That was the <;nlv time that the ship was Submerged from the time it left America. Out of the crow of thirty, there were oulv six qualified submarine men aboard.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 July 1932, Page 5
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