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The wreck and salvage of SS Telefon

  • Henry R. Heyburn (a1) and Gunnar Stenersen (a2)
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The steamship Telefon, an eight-year-old steel freighter used for carrying cargos to the Antarctic whaling ships of Chr. Christensen, struck a reef at the entrance to Admiralty Bay, South Shetland Islands, on 26 December 1908. Salvaged through the enterprise of Capt A. A. Andresen, of the Sociedad Ballenera de Magellanes, she was grounded in Port Foster, Deception Island, and eventually refloated and repaired to continue working with the whaling fleet.

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Polar Record
  • ISSN: 0032-2474
  • EISSN: 1475-3057
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