The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-06
FINAL VOYAGE
BY AMUNDSEN'S
FAMOUS SLOOP
GiOa Breasts Waves for Last
Time and Is Drawn Ashore
Near Cliff House
ThrOngs Watch Explorers Yes
sci Start on Trip to Golden
Gate Park

The good ship Gjoa has ended her
last voyage 1t took two strong steel
cables to draw Amundsens staunch
httle sloop out OF the deep. Yester-
Gay afternoon 5000 people. lining the
coast south Of the Cliff house, watched
the bleaching of the vessel. Half an
hour after midnight, when the second
tide was full. the engines and cables
again began to tug at the 80 tons of
hollow oak and the craft was drawn
far from the salt sea spray.
The Gjoa. during the week TO come,
viii be hauled up to her final resting
place and left, with her bow to the
west. high on the bluff overlooking the
Pacific. In the Gjoa, san Francisco and
Golden Gate park viii have feature
famous in ali seas. Amundsen's little
vessel matched her seaworthiness
against 10000 miles OF the ice perils
Of the north and won. What Frobisher
and Hudson and 4 hundred other nav
igators failed to DO during nearly 500
years Of endesVor, Amundsen and his
six hardy Norwegians did.
No MEMBER OF CREW PRESENT
No member OF Amundsen's crew was
on the Gjoa yesterday when, with her
IS years Of voyaging done, she was
brought in tow Of a tug through the
Golden Gate and down the half mile of
coast to her Bleaching place. With the
flag Of the United States at the mast
head and the flag of Norway at the
stern, the Gjoa came along CALAMITY
as she was headed toward the sands.
Captain Kittgsard, -Fno has had charge
OF the sloop since she has been in the
bay. had no fear Of the outcome of yes
terdsy's performance. Thousands
watched with interest as the Bleaching
was made.
The members of the life saving sta
ton, under Captain Norman Nelson,
launched their boat through the surf
and brought in the first line from the
shin. For two hours the sturdy sea-
men rowed about the vessel and be-
tween it and the shore BY o'clock
the heavy line had drawn the Gjoa's
PROV till it touched the sands in six
feet Of water. Here the tug which
had trailed astern TO aid in holding
the Gjoa head on to the beach. cast
away and started back for the Golden
Gate. Now that the real work of land
ing the sea craft was to begin, two
three inch steel cabfes were run out
from the bow and in spliced lengths
reached out through the breakers to
the shore. Here three shift pulIeys
gave the donkey engines anchored up
on the blum six fold power for the
Tug ana SLOWLY DuI steadily the STOOD
came on. Her mast rocked through an
arc Of 20 degrees as she lay half be-
tween the sea and land, exposed to the
swell near the beach, but the crossed
cables out from the bow held her
steady. and at no moment was there
the slightest chance of her turning
turtle.
POLICE GUARD BIG CABLES
Sergeant >Cdllinane and his squad
had their hands full keeping part of
the crowd from trying a tight rope per
Torrance on the first rope cable, for
many were unmindful of the way
parted hawser can kick, but when the
steel cables began their work the DO
lice contented themselves, strong in the
faith that the steel would hold in good
naturedly preventing the waders from
hanging their stockings on the lines.
Amundsen, not content with the fame
Of first making the northwest passage
and Of finding the magnetic pole Will
next spring begin another voyage in
the Fran. the vessel made famous bv
Nsnsen. In the Fran he hopes to reach
the geograp hical pole by taking the
currents far TO the north of the frozen
isles he threaded from Greenland to
Boring sea- Whatever the outcome Of
this attempt his fame is secure. and in
the Gioa San Francisco has the stout
memorial OF navigator who ranks
with the Ca5ots and Magellan