UNCHARTERED ROCK
•** *V ■ * • “*' ~ • 'SURVEY SHIP AGROUND. LONDON, September 29. The Admiralty announces that H.M. ®* Challenger (fishery investigation vessel) went' aground while carrying out survey work in uncharted waters oft the Labrador coast. The vessel struck a rock on September 23, six mileg . north of Ford’s Harbour. light, in' lat. 56.28| N„ long (61.10 W, At, the time the weather was calm, the vessel was later refloated. She 1 suffered ' damage to her forward oil tafik and several other compartments. > After having called at Ford’s Harbour to re-embark camp parties and, as far as possible, ascertain the full extent of the damage, the Challenger will ■ proceed tC St. John’s, Newfoundland. H.'M.S. -Heliotrope hfts been ordered to proceed to the place and stand by. The 'survey on which the Challenger was engaged is i n connection with the opening of the Hudson's Bay route, and the area in which she was working is quite unexplored.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1932, Page 6
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153UNCHARTERED ROCK Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1932, Page 6
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