Diary of the 1906-1907 Voyage of HNMS 'Cathrine' of Tønsberg. Including Descriptions of the Shipwreck and Life as Castaways on the Crozet Islands

AUTHOR: Harboe-Ree, Captain Anders; Translated & Edited by Eva and Cathrine Harboe-Ree and Anna Ree Cutler

PUBLISHING DETAIL: Australian Scholarly Publishing. North Melbourne.

EDITION & DATE: 1st Edition. 2023.

BINDING & PAGES: Trade Paperback . x, 107 pages .

SIZE & CONDITION: MINT - a NEW copy. Stiff card covers. Black & white illustrations.

CONTENT: In August 1906 a small Norwegian sealing vessel sailed out of the Oslofjord bound for remote subantarctic islands in the Southern Ocean. The captain and part-owner was 24-year-old Anders Harboe-Ree. This voyage was his first as master of a ship. Also on board was the expedition leader, 61-year-old Norwegian Antarctic explorer Henrik Johan Bull. After a three-month journey and just two weeks seal hunting, the ship, Cathrine, was wrecked on the Crozet Islands. This English translation of Harboe-Ree’s diary provides details of the relaxed and amicable three-month journey south, seal hunting on the Crozet Islands, the dramatic shipwreck on a reef that occurred during a violent storm and the difficult life the castaways faced in order to survive on bleak Possession Island. Also described are the efforts made to reinforce a whaling boat for Harboe-Ree and two crew members to mount a rescue bid by attempting to sail the improvised vessel 7,300 kilometres to Australia, across the wild Southern Ocean.

ISBN: 1922952486

WEIGHT: 370 grams

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