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MORRISSEY GAUGHT
IN ARCTIC IGE PACK
With Propeller and Tailshaft
Damaged, Six Days Are Spent
in Extricating the Vessel.
BEACHED FOR QUICK REPAIRS
This Done, Expedition Is Ready to
Start for Hudson Straits, No
Worse for Experience.
By GEORGE PALMER PUTNAM.
Copyright, 1927, by The New` York Times Company,
By Wireless to THE NEW Yonk Times.
ON BOARD SCHOONER MOR-
RISSEY (CARRYING THE PUT-
NAM EXPEDITION to THE ARC-
TIC), AT KOMIADLUARSUK BAY,
Labrador, June 13, via Auburn, N. Y.,
June 15. -Now it may be told, for we
are well out of the woods, or, more
exactly, out of the ice, and it seemed
needless to disturb the friends of our
Baffin Island expedition while our
future was temporarily a bit clouded.
With the propeller and tailshaft out
of commission, the Morrissey was
held in a pack of ice for six days and
has had rather a hard time of it. But
Captain Bartlett pulled her through,
and tonight, with repairs made, we
are ready to go on quite as sound as
ever.
On July 4 it started. For three
days we had been fighting slowly
north through a pretty heavy pack.
That night a gale from the northeast
closed the ice in solid with plenty of
pressure. And one pan working in
under the Morrissey's stern nipped
the propeller and bent the tailshaft-
a recurrent accident of Arctic navi-
gation.
There was nothing then to do but to
beach her and repair the damage, if
possible. But we were held in the
moving pack with the Labrador
shore perhaps twenty miles westerly,
just a bit south of Cape Chidley And
even with an engine it is easy
enough to be held by the ice for a
desperately long period without
power. Then our situation did ,not
appear so very inviting
From July 5 to 10 a fine two -fisted
fight ensued between the crippled
vessel and the ice pack. The whale-
offered. boats nosed her along when chance
a
All day and most nights
Captain Bartlett was in the -barrel
at the foremast head. But for five
days a brutal wind whistled out of
the northeast, half of the time a
gale. It held the ice locked together
like a solved picture puzzle and
closed the leads of open water just
when we seemed started.
Last Sunday morning, July 10, our
chance came. A shift of the wind
opened leads toward shore. The
boats shoved out. All hands were
out on the ice constantly helping
work the vessel through the narrow
water lanes or tracking at the end
of a rope with man-made motor
power. It was up sail, down sail,
trim cail, every few minutes. There
was est for no one. It was a tidy
experience for the novices. It was
back quite genuinely to the real pion-
eering before the luxuries of steam.
That day we got out-out in the
very teeth of another gale which
closed the jex thon fight behind
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