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On The Fringe Of The Pole No. 5 1934
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Soundtrack currently missing.
Titles read: 'On the Fringe of the Pole No. 5. In the staunch little "Morrissey" we journey with bluff old Capt. Bartlett to the far North. "Braving the ice-choked waters".'
Exact location of events unknown - somewhere near the North Pole!
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Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sarah
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- sound
- Media URN:
- 57903
- Sort Number:
- PT 215
- Time in/Out:
- 01:06:56:00 / 01:10:39:00
- Canister:
- PT 215
- Film ID:
- 3199.04
- Issue Date:
- 07/05/1934
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- Captain Bob Bartlett - On the fringe of the Pole aboard the Morrissey NEW rivers to cross
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The "Morrissey" is the schooner "Effie M. Morrisey".
"C/U of it with the inscription 'Pringles of HBMS - HECLA..." - this is the gravestone for James Pringle, a seaman on board HMS Hecla, who died on 18 May 1922 while on an expedition here......
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=md34V9vdlEsC&pg=PA80&lpg=P
A80&dq;="james+pringle"+hecl
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ig=NxkU4ETEqSTdAMFOR6N0uZWPB-g&hl=en#v=onepage&q="james%2
0pringle" hecla&f=false
"HBMS" on the gravestone stands for His Britannic Majesty's Ship (Hecla).
Thanks.