SS Pollux/Southern Cross
 

Found on the Internet

SS Pollux in the Derwent River, Tasmania, 1898


The whaler Pollux was built at Arendal, Norway in 1886. Under the explorer
Carstens Borchgrevink on December 19, 1898 Pollux made its first Antarctic
expedition where it made marine history by breaking through the Great Ice
barrier to the unexplored Ross Sea. Pollux was sold and renamed SS Southern
Cross transferring to Newfoundland in 1901.

As SS Southern Cross she was lost at sea returning from the seal hunt on
March 31, 1914, killing all 174 men aboard in the same storm that killed 78
crewmen from the SS Newfoundland, a collective tragedy that became known as
the "1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster"

Info on the disaster here (page 41) :
http://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_ma..._3_3_15-48.pdf

Interesting info on SS Newfoundland he www.ageofsail.net/aosnewfl1.asp


Regards,
Brendan

SS Pollux/Southern Cross
 

Sorry, Info on disaster should read (page 40).
link is OK.

Regards,
Brendan