BYRD’S SHIPS PREPARING
SOON TO LEAVE FOR SOUTH SEVERAL VACANCIES ABOARD From Our Own Correspondent DUNEDIN, Today. Preparations will soon begin at Port Chalmers for the next trip to the Antarctic of the ships of the Byrd expedition. At the beginning of next month they will go into dry dock for cleaning and painting, and will then go to Dunedin to load stores. It is expected that the sailing ship City of New York will leave about the middle of December, and the steamer Eleanor Boling, a fortnight later. The actual dates will depend on the information received from Commander Byrd concerning the state of the ice. The sledge dogs from Mount Cook will go south on the whaler Kosmos, which arrived at Wellington this morning. The Eleanor Boling w-ill ship several firemen for the trip, and there are also vacancies in the crew of the City of New York. Applications from men wishing to fill these vacancies are already coming in freely, but men with seafaring experience will, of course, be given preference. The capable handling of a “square rigged” ship is a skilled art, and in tile latitudes of blizzards and ice floes previous experience of seafaring is practically indispensable.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 788, 8 October 1929, Page 18
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