Northwest History. Alaska. Science. United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1936
• Subjects: Alaska; Ships; Ship building; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th Century; Arctic; Bering Sea; Indian; North Star; Pacific; Barrow; eskimo*; ice pack
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/101670

Mercy Ship Out Of Northern Ice U. S. S. NORTH STAR, OFF CAPE THOMPSON, Alaska, Mon- jday, Sept. 14.—(AP)—After battling [ the incoming Arctic ice pack more than 400 miles down the Arctic j coast from Barrow, this Bureau of Indian Affairs motorship was safe here today. Fears that the ship would be trapped by the ice and marooned for the winter on the bleak northern coast were felt until she reached Cape Thompson today. One blade of the propellor was bent when the North Star bucked the icefields off Barrow, where 450 tons of supplies were left for starving Eskimos living east of Bar- The vessel will encounter no more ice on her voyage southward into the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean. The Arctic ice pack this year was much earlier than usual. Passengers on the ship, commanded by Capt. S. L. Whitlam of Seattle, are Miss Louise Jes- chien, Alameda, Calif., feature writer, and Dr. and Mrs. Henry W. Greist, Presbyterian medical missionaries en route to their home in Monticello, Ind.