stefansson-wrangel-09-19-012-001

DELAYED IN NORTHLAND
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Seattle Times

CAPT. HAROLD NOICE NOW AT
DUTCH HARBOR.
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Young Seattle Explorer Cables He's
Waiting for Vessel to Bring
Him Home.
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Capt. Harold Noice of Seattle, noted
[...]s the world's youngest Arctic ex-
plorer and navigator, and a number
of other wayfarers are temporarily
marooned in Dutch Harbor waiting
for a vessel to bring them to Se-
attle. 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 Com-
pany's power schooner Lady Kin-
dersley 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 them-
selves 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 voy-
age 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 Tel-
ler, Captain Noice expected to pro-
ceed to Nome to catch the liner Vic-
toria 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.