VOYAGE OF MV THALA DAN 66/67 V3 - Dumont d'Urville & Wilkes
Voyage - 66/67 V3 - Dumont d'Urville & Wilkes VOYAGE OF MV THALA DAN Voyage Leader: Francis Patrick McMahon Ship Captain: Wenzel Gommersen Voyage Support: Deputy Voyage Leader: Eric Leslie Macklin Army DUKW crew: Lieut G Bool Cpl Ken G Webber or Weber? Cfn Phillip L Wainwright, RAEME Lt J B Doohan Lcpl K Robinson Lcpl J F Ford Ian George Bird, Electronics Engineer, Melbourne to Dumont d'Urville to Wilkes and transferred to Nella Dan for RTA Dr J Katsufrakis, US Observer, Melbourne to Dumont d'Urville to Melbourne EPF Party, Melbourne to Dumont d'Urville Hanf Fischer Le Pouriel Dassonville Godard Marguerite Touzel Sandron Guyon Lacan Cheval Henzey EPF Party, Dumont d'Urville to Melbourne Guillard Ambergny Belloncle Berthelier Boisnard Coppee Delavigne Gogny Isbarrart Lambert Le Gallic Marx Martin Salmon Sauvage Toskert Volck Dagonneau Itinerary: Arrive Depart Melbourne 6 Jan 67 Dumont d'Urville 15 Jan 67 15 Jan 67 beset 24 Jan 67 5 Feb 67 Wilkes 6 Feb 67 10 Feb 67 Dumont d'Urville 14 Feb 67 16 Feb 67 Melbourne 23 Feb 67 Thala Dan again sub-chartered from Expeditions Polaires Francaises. Thala Dan was beset for 12 days. She left Wilkes in the path left by USCG Eastwind.
reference "Antarctic Events Database" data of the Australian Antarctic Data Center