NEW ZEALANDER’S D.S.O.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1768, 22 December 1917, Page 3

NEW ZEALANDER’S D.S.O.

ANTARCTIC HERO SINKS SUBMARINE. The circumstances in which the D.S.O. was granted to LieutenantCommander Frank Worsley, late of the Shaekleton Antarctic Expedition, are narrated in a letter received here from the High Commissioner. Lieutenant- Commander Worsley, who is a New Zealander, was navigating commander of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship, the Endurance, and shared with the leader of the expedition the perils of the wonderful relief journey after the vessel had been crushed by the ice in the Weddell Sea. He came to New Zealand with Sir Ernest Shaekleton in connection with the relief expedition to the Ross Sea, and then hurried to England to take service with the Admiralty. “A New Zealander named Worsley commanded a submarine, and was sent to take care of an oil steamer,” writes the High Commissioner. “Accompanying him was a British destroyer. The weather, which was bad, increased to great violence during the night, and he lost the destroyer. ’ In the morning a German submarine was encountered, whiph launched a torpedo. The noise made by the storm was so loud that Commander Worsley did not hear the torpedo strike the ship, but be saw her settling down, He shipped rpnnd, discovered the submarine, and immediately sent her to the bottom. The only member of the German crew saved* was the commander, whom he took on board, then took the oil steamer in hand, and brought her safely to port.”