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The wreck and salvage of SS Telefon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Henry R. Heyburn  and
Gunnar Stenersen
Henry R. Heyburn
Affiliation:
Brown, Todd and Heyburn, 1600 Citizens Plaza, Louisville, Kentucky 40207 USA
Gunnar Stenersen
Affiliation:
Geiteråsen 44, N-4640 Søgne, Norway
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Abstract

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 , Volume 25 , Issue 152 , January 1989 , pp. 51 - 54
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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