VOYAGE OF MV NELLA DAN 66/67 V2 - Nella Dan

Voyage - 66/67 V2 - Nella Dan beset for 26 days during voyage
VOYAGE OF MV NELLA DAN
Voyage Leader: Donald Franklin Styles
Ship Captain: Bent Thygesen Hansen

Voyage Support:
Deputy Voyage Leader: Dudley Raymond Twigg
Air Controller: George V Treatt

Army DUKW crew:
Captain Jim B Doohan, RAASC/RACT
L/Cpl John F Ford
L/Cpl K Robinson
Lt G A Bool
Cpl K G Webber
Cfn P L Wainwright

Helicopter crew:
J Zwozny, Pilot
L R Rogers, Engineer-in-cahrge
G J Tadgell

Round Trip:
Mawson construction party:
Alan M Brown, Senior Engineer, Antarctic Division
Geoffrey Denys Probyn Smith, STO, Antarctic Division
D W G Bond, Diesel Mechanic
P Allsop, Electrical Fitter-Mechanic
A S Fristad, Carpenter
Alan D Parker, Carpenter
G H Collier, Carpenter
H J Denman, Carpenter
A G Read, Carpenter
S J Minns, Plumber
R Hall, Plumber
John Coplant Milne, Plant Operator
William Macha, Rigger

Ian George Bird, Round tripper on V3(66-67)
Thala Dan transferred to Nella Dan at Wilkes ice edge for Mawson to Melbourne.

Itinerary:       Arrive       Depart

Melbourne                     26 Dec 66
beset             7 Jan 67    31 Jan 67
Mawson           13 Feb 67    23 Feb 67
Wilkes ice edge   1 Mar 67 
Hobart            8 Mar 67

Nella Dan was beset for 26 days about 70 miles from Thala Dan also beset. USCG Eastwind came to the rescue of Nella Dan and both headed for Thala Dan off Wilkes on 3 Feb 67.

reference "Antarctic Events Database" data of the Australian Antarctic Data Center