Hide Article Text (OCR)
SEA-GOING BARGAINS :0:-TUB SCHOONER IN THE ICEBERGLast week Captain H. R. Lancey , bought the stranded collier “Paterson ( (446 tons) from the insurance under- ( writers for less than £1.000. The , •Paterson’s previous owners. II. R. Lancey Shipping Co. Pty. Ltd. (of j which the Captain is the principal t shareholder) had Insured the ship for , £30,000. but the Captain bought the , ship by tender from the underwriters alter she had been abandoned as a total loss after being beached in Bungaree Bay. 40 miles north of Sydney, in the 1 middle of November. The 6hJp had 1 I sprung a leak when 10 miles off-shore, ' and she had been beached in an effort to save her. i ’With the help of local fishermen,( Capt. Lancey refloated the “Paterson” 1 after the crew had pumped water from / the flooded holds and engineroom. and ‘ she managed to make Sydney under lt;her own steam.When he bought the ship for £1,000. the Captain also bought the 27U-ton cargo of coal, worth £400, from the ^ Wall nr oh Coal Company lor 30/-. It t Is worth about 30/- a ton.The “Paterson will be docked In . Sydney for repairs.“I haven't decided what to do after p that. said Captain Lancey. “but it'd j i cost about £80,000 to build a steamer ; r ol the Paterson's’ type these days.INTO THE UNKNOWN Meanwhile considerable shipping activity is going on in various Australian ports in preparation lor the coming naval-scientific expedition to the Antarctic which has been organised by I he Department of External Affairs, The Wyatt Earp is being refitted and overhauled at Adelaide for this ex- B pedttion, which may establish a permanent base in the Antarctic if conditions are favourable. Equipment for this expedition will, like the whaling * fleet now assembling in South African waters, be an international affair. Norwegian skis and boots will be used by the land parties, and heavier snow equipment will be either of American or Canadian make. The expedition will also take aircraft for observation and mapping some ol the 2,800.000 square miles of the Australian polar dependency.Other nations are also planning Antarctic expeditions, Including Britain. Norway and the States, while Russia. Argentina, South Africa and Chile have announced plans to explore further this promised land of valuable mineral resources.Coal, and the uranium necessary for the manufacture of atomic bombs are the most significant though iron, copper, molybdenum and other metals have also been found in Antarctica TERROR AND MYSTERY Modern aircraft, special snow Jeeps, radar, vitamin tablets and dehydrated loods all of which were developed during the war. ease the path of the modern Antarctic explorer, but all explorers agree that there Is something almost terrifying about the Antarctic. Unlike the Arctic, which is a frozen sea encircled by land, it la on immense continent of 5.250.000 square miles girt by abysmal depths of ocean. Its isolation is extreme and its vastnes . »vr-whelmlng. Icebergs as big as mountains can crush ths explorers siilps f like a nutshell—and there Is emptiness everywhere. There are no ’recy no animals. no flowers and no rivers.And in the waters of the Antarctic Oircle occurred one of the most fantastic Incidents of the eea.DOWN AMONG TKB DEAD NIX
Newspaper Details
Proserpine Guardian
Proserpine, Queensland, AU
Fri, Jan 09, 1948
Page 4
Full Page
Clipped by
Ulrike D.
USA 16 Dec 2021
Other Publications Near Proserpine, Queensland
Proserpine Guardian
