stefansson-wrangel-09-19-012

DELAYED IN NORTHLAND ---------- Seattle Times

CAPT. HAROLD NOICE NOW AT DUTCH HARBOR. ---------- Young Seattle Explorer Cables He's Waiting for Vessel to Bring Him Home. ----

Capt. Harold Noice of Seattle, noted [...]s the world's youngest Arctic explorer and navigator, and a number of other wayfarers are temporarily marooned in Dutch Harbor waiting for a vessel to bring them to Seattle. In a cablegram to his mother, Mrs. H. S. Noice, 211 W. Garfield St., he announces that he will come south on the first vessel calling in Dutch Harbor. The message was received yesterday.

Captain Noice, who is only 25 years old, is returning to Seattle after six and a half years in the Arctic. Spring found him far to the eastward of Herschel Island, but in the summer he boarded the Hudson's Bay Company's power schooner Lady Kindersley and traveled on her to Teller and thence to Dutch Harbor. In Dutch Harbor, Captain Noice, Capt. T. P. O'Kelly, marine superintendent of the Hudson's Bay Company, and Mrs. Kelly left the Kindersley, expecting they would be able to catch the Alaska Steamship Company's Bering Sea liner Victoria for Seattle. The Victoria however, does not go to Dutch Harbor, so the trio found themselves temporarily marooned with nearly a dozen other white persons who had gathered in that place.

From Dutch Harbor the Kindersley proceeded to Prince Rubert, B. C., where she is now in drydock.

The Kindersley had a severe voyage from Hershel Island to Bering Sea. Between Herschel Island and Point Barrow she was walled in by ice for two days and was extricated with difficulty. After passing Point Barrow September 19 she ran into a terrific storm, accompanied by snow.

When the Kindersley reached Teller, Captain Noice expected to proceed to Nome to catch the liner Victoria for Seattle, but he was unable to make connections and remained on the Hudson's Bay Company vessel, which sailed from Teller to Dutch Harbor direct.