Show icebound five weeks ship crosses sea in 12 boston nearly three months since it first sailed from stockholm awe aden a voyage that usually takes less than three weeks the steamer baltic capt 0 lodan warped into dock at Charies town with a story of having been trapped in the ice of the baltic asea for five weeks ik the steamer left stockholm with a cargo of wood pulp polished granite and other merchandise it made the passage to the finnish port of ciango where it finished loading the five succeeding weeks were passed frozen in the ice of the northern sea and it awas only through persistent efforts to open a path with the assistance of two ice breaking boats sent out by the swedish government that it was extricated jf with provisions low and coal near ly exhausted the steamer limped iback to stockholm where its bunk were replenished it next went anto drydock for minor repairs through the unusually long voyage captain lodin said the health of his crew was excellent in addition to ts regular cargo the baltic brought a case of books from stockholm consigned to harvard university |