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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