New Britain herald., 1928-09-11
GREENLAND PLIERS ALMOST DROWNED Motor Boat Strikes Rock, Plung.
 ing Them Into Water sHy Aas,. sG,s1DSss,iest Dssti s,si;" "trS
 Hartford, Conn. Hassell and Cran,..,
 ford Plane, Escape Death for Sec nd Time When They Reach Rockbound Shore.

Copenhagen. Denmark. Sept
 II R-Bert HasselI and Park
 CT Cramer. filers of the airplane
 Greater Rockford" embarked
 at Godthaal today for Ivigut
 whence they will .all for Amer
 ica. Word of their departure
 was received by the Greenland
 administration department of
 the Danish government from
 the sheriff of southern Green
 land
 The message said that the
 fliers were accompanied by four
 other Americans, including
 Prof. William H. Hobbs of the
 University of Michigan Green
 land expedition. The steamer
 Fulton is taking them to Ivigut
 Copenhagen. Sept. 11.-P>-Twice victorious over death in the Arctic, Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer, pilots of the airplane Greater Rock ford, were safe today after having been shipwrecked in the cold waters of Greenland.
 The airmen. rescued two weeks after a forced landing and a trek across a wild and unexplored waste were travelling down the coast on Sunday in a motor boat when it struck a rock at the mouth of Simiutak Fjord. on the southewest ern coast of Greenland. The boat sank but the fliers and their six companions. including Professor William H. Hobbs. leader of the Uni versity of Michigan Greenland ex- petition. escaped to the desolate shore.
 Needed Fuel
 Once they had gained land the eight men found themselves in need of food and fuel. Two natives made their way in a small boat to Kan gaming and obtained aid.
 The sheriff of South Greenland in reporting the latest mishap of tn. fliers to the Greenland administra- ton department said that efforts were being made to raise the sunker boat. The vessel had been chartered from company Of Greenlanders a Holsterberg for transportation pur poses.
 The message from the sheriff die not name the boat but it was be. lieved to be the sloop Nakuak. of 2( tons. This vessel recently took ir winter supplies to the Mount Evans observatory of the Hobbs expedi. ton and was to take out Professor Hobbs, the two fliers, Assistant Di- rector Belknap, and Stewart. Potter and Estes of the expedition. Other motor sloops were to be used, how ever. in stages of the journey tc Ivigtut where they were to take 6 steamer for Philadelphia.
 Hassell and Cramer were rescued by members of the Hobbs expedition on September ? when their smoke signals were seen. They had made g forced landing at Point Sukkertop. pen on August 19 when trying te reach Mount Evans on the second lel of their flight from Rockford. H., te Sweden.
 Hassell and Cramer apparently were making their way to Ivigtut te catch the ore steamer Wagland which is scheduled to leave there about September 29 for Philadelphia Prof. Hobbs had arranged for some members of his party to go tc America on that vessel and had re. quested the Danish government tt permit Hassell and Cramer to ac. company this group.
 The University of Michigan ex- petition is studying the effects ol Arctic weather on Atlantic storms ir an effort to devise a system of fore. casting.