THE MISSING ENDEAVOR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 306, 24 December 1914, Page 7

THE MISSING ENDEAVOR.

Owdng to the fact that «h<* 1' edei nl trawler Endeavour has been considerably ovei-due from Macquarie Island, anxiety is felt for her safety. In the House of Representatives m Melbourne on the 17th the Mia.ster for Trade and Customs made a statement in connection with the matt Jr. He said that he made the statement in

order that members might know the exact facts of the case, .and not be unnecessarily alarmed. fne Endeavour was now eight or nine days over- , due, and the position :md becmne ' serious. The vessel had gone to Macquarie Island for the Meteoroiogi. I cal Department to take a party to relieve the members of the Maws on l.\pedition who had been left there. She , was to have brought the others j He had received a wireless message 1 from Macquarie Island to the effect j that the Endeavour left on the Brd | instant, but her departure was unnb- ! served on account of the fog at the j time; It was understood that she 1 was making for Hobart, which port, it was expected, she would reach in under five days. She had f>o tons of coal on board. The weather had since been very rough. ihe Minister added that immediately he knew that the vesesl was overdue he consulted the Prime Minister and the head of the Naval .Depa.tment, snd I they were arranging for a warship j which was now in Queensland, and which was fitted with wr’elers, in ori der that they could keen in touch I with him. The Endeavour was not ! fitted with wireless. The question of so fitting her had been under considI eration by previous Governments hut it had not' been none. It was pos- | si Je that she may have met with on [ accident and broken her shaft, ast j very often occurred at sea. She may j also have run short of coal. How. j ever, she had ridden out gales before, j Captain Pym, who was in charge of the Endeavour, was an old himar.d every step was being taken to allay the anxiety of the relations of thote ( I who were aboard the Endeavour. He understood that she carried a staysail and a couple of trysails. Later in the day the Minister for Customs stated that the Federal Government had chartered Huddart, Parkei’s steamer Worribeo to go i nsearch of the Endeavour.

Following is a ,11st of the men on board the Endeavour:—Director of I Fisheries, Harold C. Dannevig; mast- ' er, Geo. W. C. Pym; chief engineer, Angus Mackay; second engineer, ; Stanley Ditcham; third engineer

(temporary), Charles Hoe; mate, * Joseph R. Burkett; second mate and chief fisherman, Alfred Ackers; chief cook and steward, A. Wythe; assistant cook, H. Kitching; firemen, Alfred 1 Holmes, Nils Rasmussen, J. Byrne; fishermen, H. A. Farrant, L. Olson, , George Cooper, H. Samson; ordinary seamen, Thomas Rice, J. W. Jackson; | mess-room hoy, T. Scott; wireless operator from Macquarie Island, Harold Power; biologist, C. T, Harrison.