Show IHAS HAS Em DEEN EE r FAST IN INTilE INTilE L TilE ICE IGE 55 YEARS Thaw at Last Releases Vessel Which Attempted Attempt North North- Northwest west Passage PRISONER NEAR THE POLE Storm Carried British Warship WarshipS Into Mercy Bay and S Trapped Her Herd HerdS S New York April 11 Within a few months there will comb sailing out f cf If the Atlantic beating its forgotten path back to civilization cI and to to England nd an on old wooden English h warship that thai In 1801 carried Sir John Franklin to the southern seas and made mado greater fame tomo for tor herself when wIen the she sailed saile through Bering Dering strait Into the tho unknown unknown unknown un un- un- un known seas and lc Icy sha shadows more mor than han 55 years ears ago Since September 24 1851 H. H LI M. S S. Investigator has boon been frozen in th thIce the Ice lee in Mercy o ba hay In the tho Interminable work lace of or land Jand and sea sell to the north of or North America x It was as commander of or till this famous fa fl- fa- fa mOlls motis ol old ship that Sir Robert L Le McClure made lila ILls mcm r rable able ablo voyage and discovered co I the North North- orth- orth west passage Sou Sought ht Trail 11 Year For 3 years cars maritime Europ ha had to rInd hind been tr trying a passage across the thc north of the Am American rican Tit contInent to China Chinn and the Indies Countless treasures and man many lives had been heln lost in fn the tho search In 1819 1840 En England having a period of peace turned her navy loose to try once more for the tho trail The Tho Investigator In gator ator was then an old woo wooden v en cor cor- vette fitted with a n. steam engine and carr ln a row ow of or long guns bc behind her white painted portholes The last that the thc other ships of or the McClure squadron saw of oC the tho Investigator Investigator gator was as August J 6 C 1860 1850 when she was as seen running northeast rounding Point Barrow narrow in what was then Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian America or 01 Alaska Alaska- She va was flying Hying before belore a a. great storm her heri i ii orous young commander pacing her herdeck deck Captain McClure l had hall part parted wi with h the Herald another wooden batt battleship battle 11 ship pressed into the frigid str l nI f D at t Cape Capo Lisbon All along lIonS the the- northern shore of or North America the Investigator Investigator gator weathered the stormy seas Cn Captan Cap ap p- p ta tan aln n McClure putting putting- into I nd whenever whenever when when- ever he lie could to inquire o ot the Eskimos Eskimos Eski Eski- lmos l- l mos for some trace of the tho lost Sir John Franklin lIn ond l his shipload o of or adventuresome spirits Now Kow and then records of or the trip were placed In heaps of ot r alon along the tho ragged rag frozen shore Thence hence it sailed north toward towar the pole pol around the upp upper r rend end of or Bering land and into a 3 small ba bay which the they named M M. rey ba bay bayS bayThe S The Tho next day the season cd and the ship began besan to freeze Into imo th i Ice Captain McClure decided 1 to winter winter winter win win- ter there expecting that he could j got t t l He H thought ti O I tJ 1101 fro years yeara m 1 u n a ar nr r unC l J hi iq liiri S The l' l Arctic night settled 1 down and black on tho the of or men The next summer 1852 paso paso-l ol without the ice Ico breaking up around the ship and another winter settled i down own Captain Captain Cap Cap- tam tain McClure began to expect the fate of Franklin with possible starvation and freezing Severn Sc I lied Died Other ers s Several of the men died In the summer summer summer sum sum- mer of 18 3 nn and as the thu winter down again hope was given 11 1 up and the record of or the theo voyage o age was IJ hurled buried ashore in the tho hope that future S' S gen gon- n- n might find I IOne It S One afternoon while the man 1101 Were cutting a hole In Ira the tILe i See ice e to fish n a I stranger staggered toward the them In He tIe fell tell at the feet teet of ot Captain McClure after atel saluting saluting- In the English na naval w al fashion Cashion and cried out Lieutenant Pim Pirn of or H ITI M. 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S Herald Her lIer- aid ald from Captain Captain Killets was one of or tho the commanders commanders com corn manders of oC a a. squadron qua ron that hail had made d' its way round the tho north of 1 Tanks Kank's Land and was wintering at wh what t Js Jo isnow now Melville me Island Islan It had found one of ot the cairns with McClures McClure's message Captain had sent a a. party to rescue him hint and establish communication tion and only onlO Lieutenant Pirn had I reached him S Wouldn't Abandon Ship I The next da day Captain McClure and anda a party part went across ucross the Ice to Melville S island and visited Cap Captain lain TIlletta Captain McClure was advised to toI abandon tho the Investigator but refused I to do o so set and 20 of or his seamen selmen though sick and volunteered to re remain remain remain re- re main on the ship another winter The captain went back bock t to his men The Theother Theother Theother other ships ga gau up the search hall hail Ing lag the old Investigator as tho discoverer dIcov- dIcov of tho the passage and the thc next l summer sum tum- ummer mer Hulled home S The Tho summer of or lS ISol l found foun the old ship still still- i tuck stuck fast in tho the Ice and nd reluctantly Captain McClure went homo home In a z sister ship the the- U- U gator was as loft left frozen an and deserted w with Ith Its flag to the icy winds 1 from tho the masthead and all her fn instruments tru- tru snouts ments and fittings aboard For fiO 50 years ars she was forgotten p. 8 seen n only at times by A American whalers whaler pas passIng r. r the mouth of or the frozen m tJ hay y and vis visited lied Hed only by wolves woI foxes and now no and then a n superstitious Eskimo who dared not climb aboard J. In 1001 an Indian pai pasty ty which t had been driven to the island on Ice found the old l ship The ages hail had come corne Into contact with the lie Jesuit missionaries of or Alaska and had hafl a smattering of oC religion and biblical history Thc They knew the str of or tha the ark urk and coming back hack to tho con l- l neat nent reported that they had found Noahs Noah's an ark frozen Into th the Jre re not nut notman man many miles from the north pole The st story lr wont tho the roun rounds s of or the news news- papers S S Last r. r was a mild on one In the Arctic The ice In Mercy bay merited melted for tor the first time Ume This week novices received cd at al Victoria 13 n. C C. from Dawson Dawson Dawson Daw- Daw son brought there from Fort McPherson McPherson Mc- Mc Pherson by Audrey Audley Forrest a snow- snow hoe slice carrier were to tho the efte effect t that the mildness of last summer and winter have havo liberated the tho famous old oid ship and that whalers America have e visited it and are lying 1 by Y in ln Mercy bay hay with the tho hope of oC towing to Its old craft clear of oC the island and bringing blinking her back to tn Alaska and BO so BOto soto to h Columbia A pit full report of oC her iier condition has been made made- to Captain Jarvis of the Ule Northwestern fn mounted police pollee who vho says saya that the cold and leo Ico have preserved preserved pre pro served the Inv And dhe ahe is 18 to today today to- to day probably as sound as as she oraa waa I when Captain McClure deserted her j Her lIer and fittings are in good condition anti and It t Is quite I po possible t le that el l tylli sail II home hope to S S SS T England S oh 01 |