The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1920-09-17

The whole crew of the Solovei and
all her passengers. 81 altogether, had
gathered on deck and were greeted by
us with resounding hurrah, to which
they responded in the same way.
Their JOY is not easy to describe. To
drift without aim. almost without
hope. in the darkness and cold of the
Polar night, with bad and insufficient
food. In cold and unclean quarters,
and in constant dread of getting SO
far north that rescue would be I'm
pOssible-that is an ordeal so hard
that IL is not every one who would
come through 1t entirely unscathed.
Immediately after we arrived the
captain of the SOlovei and his wife
and all the passengers, seven in num-
her, came on board They were invit-
ed into the salon and treated tn re-
freshments, WI ~ they evidently APP
preciated. One of them said II was
like coming into paradise after their
anxieties. The passengers asked leave
to transfer to the Sviatogor as they
were greatly exhausted and needed
medical attention and better diet, and
/ was glad to be able to grant their
request. Then we set to work to put
provisions and coal on board the Solo
vel. so that the crew could at once
prepare proper meal with something
better to eat and drink than they had
had In the last few months.
Second Relief Ship Arrives.
About four O'Clock in the morning
we were awakened by loud hurrahs
from the crew Of the Solovei. who
were hailing the arrival of the Kama
da. which had at last also got through.
Had the Kanada not been so fortunate
as to get into the lane made In the
ice by the Sviatogor, II would have
been hardly possible for her arrive
so soon. Next day we shipped more
coaT and provisions on board the Solo
vel. and were helped with hearty good
will blythe crews of the two Russians.
This done we started I'm the after
noon Of June 20 on our homeward voy
age. the Sviatogor leading and the
Solovei and Kanada following. At
first the Ice was loose and fairly easy
to get through, but afterwards 1t be-
came closer and more difficult to force.
There was fog, too. which made II inn
possible to keep proper observation of
the Ice conditions. Consequently we
often had to stop fairly long time,
tel H. hA tnd he,
other two ships from keeping with us.
1t was evening on the 21st when we
reached the Kara sea entrance, and
there we were again obliged to stop
for thick fog.
We resumed our voyage at o'clock
next morning steering for the mid
die of the Kara strait, but at 2:30
p. m. were unlucky enough to ground
on an unknown sandbank. We at once
began to tranship coal to the Solovei
and Kanada In order to get the
Sviatogor afloat again, and after I'M
loading $50 tons Of coal we at last got
her off. A diver from the Kanada ex-
amined the ships bottom and pro-
nounced the damage not serious. So
we continued our voyage to Bielushya
bay, where we handed over more pro-
visions and supplies to the Russians
and took on coal from the Harde for
our voyage back to England.
After cordial leave-taking from
our friends on the Solovei and Kama
da these vessels left US on June %,
shaping their course for Archangel.
On July we had completed our coal
ing and next day at p. IN. we began
our homeward voyage.