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"The ship was not abandoned one hour too soon..."

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Dump Camp


Worsley's Journal. October 27, 1915


"The ship was not abandoned one hour too soon, for shortly after we had camped on the floe, we could hear the crushing & smashing of her beams & timbers & subsequent examination of her showed that only 6 cabins aboard had not been pierced by the floes & blocks of ice."


Worsley's comment prompted me to take a closer look at this photo.



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