Word: godthaab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monastery after a lecture tour in which his Paris appearance was the last of 60, the good curé delayed his departure only in order to fetch the fleet its first batch of mail. Later, with the St. Yves plying between the Banks boats and St. Pierre-Miquelon and Godthaab in Greenland, Father Yvon will bring more mail and necessary supplies. Officially the St. Yves is a hospital ketch, equipped for surgical operations. It also contains an altar, but many a day Father Yvon packs up his holy vessels, pulls on rubber boots beneath his Capuchin robe, sets out over...
After making aerial studies of the mouth of Labrador's Northwest River as a seaplane base possibly superior to Cartwright, the Lindberghs hurdled Davis Strait 400 mi. to Godthaab on the west coast of Greenland. There they met the S. S. Jellinge, a 3,500-ton Danish tramp chartered by Pan American, outfitted as a floating laboratory, sent north from Philadelphia last month. Its research staff is headed by Pan American's Major Robert A. Logan, Canadian War ace who bombed the headquarters of Germany's Prince Rupprecht before the famed Richthofen shot him down. Ten years...
...cook and navigator. They sailed from Baddeck, Nova Scotia, June 17, made the coast of Greenland July 15. Twice on the way they were nearly wrecked. Allen was a good sailor, says Kent, but his judgment was poor. When they anchored in a little cove 40 miles from Godthaab, their destination, they thought their troubles were over; but that night a storm hit them, shifted their moorings, pounded the Direction against the rocks (TIME, July 29, 1929). They got ashore without trouble, saved some of their belongings, with mixed feelings watched the Direction sink. Next day Kent set out overland...