IDNO

P.86113.PAT

Description

Photograph taken from the deck of the Isbjørn showing two crew members having difficulties with the main sail while navigating through rough water.

Place

N America; Arctic; Greenland; United Kingdom; Davis Strait; Kap Farvel [Cape Farewell]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Paterson, Thomas Thompson

Date

1 - 11 July 1937

Collection Name

Paterson Collection

Source

Paterson, Erik T.

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Image: Same image mounted in James Wordie’s 1937 album with the number and caption:
“July 1 - 11”
85. “80 - 88. Difficulties with the main sail.”
See Related Documents File. [Jocelyne Dudding 3/3/2008]

Bibliographical Reference: J. M. Wordie; H. Carmichael; E. G. Dymond; T. C. Lethbridge, ‘An Expedition to North West Greenland and the Canadian Arctic in 1937’ in The Geographical Journal, Vol. 92, No. 5. (Nov., 1938), pp. 385-418.
Text on p. 388 includes:
We started “on the Atlantic passage westwards from Cape Wrath till July 1. There had been a period of very unsettled weather in the North Atlantic area, but more was to follow, and the ship was hove to three times on the passage to Cape Farewell, which in favourable weather should normally take seven to eight days. Twice this was the result of head winds, but on the last occasion our trouble was a strong following gale, when on the ninth day after leaving Eriboll a moderate easterly breeze rose to a full gale from north-east, and we ran before the wind, decks awash, the ship lurching forward as the heavier waves lifted her onwards. We remained in this way till the 11th, when the weather improved and we attempted a more northerly course. Then almost suddenly the sea flattened out, though the wind was still fairly strong, and we knew that we must now be to leeward of the unseen pack-ice and into Davis Strait”. [JD 13/2/2007]

P.86084.PAT to P.86583.PAT were found wrapped in the card now numbered C446/1/.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 13/2/2007]