Show Steamer Returns From Fruitless Day 1 Search In North Atlantic for Missing Liev ire S k S c r M I t ty j y y d y I i 9 a r z L 7 4 7 v f 1 s NOVA SCOTIA DOTTED LINE INDICATES ROOTE cr BV BY TRENTON IN SEARCH c 5 TAKEN s O FOR THE LEV LlEV ERIKSSON EIRIKSSON sp A o oi i r i I err r x XA 0 o O. O V X Xi m 7 r arr a O. O o. o J NL W Map of the course taken by the Trenton with cross showing probable location of the Liev Eiriksson when lost early in September Upper left a lo lookout kout scanning the horizon for the lost boat circle inset Ackerman NEA Service photographer in Arctic hood worn on trip By M. M J J. J ACKERMAN NEW YORK Dec 10 Picture 10 Picture a tossing infinity of frigid black wa water yva- yva atel a- a ter tel beneath a sky-dome sky filled with snow sleet rain and moaning wind gusts This is the North Atlantic in November No No- November vember where the foot 42 Eiriksson is lost Into this overpowering fearsome fascinating ing scene I X went on the bruiser cruiser Trenton on its day 11 11 search for the little litHe sailboat and arid and Its crew of ot adventurers To the experienced officers and men men of or the Trenton the trip was simply an item in th Jr ob 1 cruise into whatever the storm gods might send an an occasion for using their seamanship and clearness of sight But to this landlubber it was a succession of af hairbreadth escapes providential rescues wild adventures tures And to have haye found the Liev Llev Eiriksson would hn have ve appeared a miracle The Trenton sailed from New NewYork York toward the banks of af Newfoundland Newfoundland New New- took up the search there Into the middle of ot the ocean circled southward to check up the report of ofa ofa a derelict crossed tho warm blue river of the gulf guIr stream and re returned returned returned re- re turned empty handed The Liev Llev Eiriksson bearing WW W Wr W. W Nutting and his party part had sailed from Greenland early in September headed for tor Labrador on the last leg I of their voyage across the Atlantic If they had bad been lost or disabled the natural drift of the currents in that region would have carried them in ina ina ina a southeasterly course Their Theil rate rate- would have been about 11 miles a day Our course therefore was a double intersection of ot the track their boat might have been expected to follow fonow Except for about three days das of our trip we were continuously buffeted by storms By the time we reached Fire Island four tour hours out from New NewYork NewYork York the Trenton was being ham ham- She was built for far speed a sort of magnified destroyer about feet long lang with only 65 55 feet teet beam Down these mountainous slopes of ot the deep raced our ship to bury her nose in the face of the sleep up- up curve cur of water at the foot Or a a. tremendous surge would catch us amidships on omits peak the stern with its Ita four tour propellers kicking out into air all the ship throbbing and straining but always driving forward forward forward for for- ward and upright Or the choppy billo billows vs s would bombard us from all directions hitting us when down pounding us and rattling up like lile dice in a cup And at the depth of some Mme such experience with the deck slanting at a degree 45 angl angle some humorous humor humor- ous sailor sanor would l grunt r nt to the landlubber landl landlubber land land- lubber I 1 hope she comes back She always did Worst Vorst of ot all was a hurricane from Cuba which broke at night as we neared the end Yet we missed the full force torce of ot it for Captain Kalbfus KalMus had heeded warnings and altered his course out t of itt its direct sweep How a a. small boat could live e in such an ocean seems sible A continuous lookout was l kept ept from the nest crows and another fro from t the bridge Every toss and hen ve of the ship was magnified for Cor the men at the top of or the mast One man toward the end of his watch got to seeing derelicts as a sort of mirage but work was carried on without without- interruption At night searchlights reached out their fingers fingers fin fin- gers of light Ight for tor the p phantom anto Liev Eiriksson With glasses from the masthead our OUI lookouts could cover IB 16 miles of ot sea in every direction If the Liev had been in our part of ot the ocean the tho Trenton would have found It But the ocean was t too o strong too big I |