﻿HARALD CHRISTIAN DANNEVIG, 



DIRECTOR, 



and the Work and Loss of the F.I.S. " Endeavour. " 



" There dwells a wife by the Northern Gate, 

 And a wealthy wiie is she ; 

 She breeds a breed o' roviii' men 

 And casts them oversea."- — Kipling. 



On 20th November, 1914, the Fisheries Investigation ship 

 left Hobart for Macquarie Island. She arrived there on 1st 

 December, and. after a delay of two days occasioned by bad 

 weather, fulfilled her mission of relieving an operator at the 

 Wireless Station. She started on her retiun journey on 3rd 

 December. 



A brief view by the solitary officers stationed at the island 

 of the staunch little ship as she disappeared into the sea mists, 

 a terrific gale two days later, and that, perhaps, is all we 

 shall ever know of the end of our friend, Harald Dannevig, 

 who, in his knowledge of the mysteries of the sea knew no 

 superior ; of Captain Pim, a capable navigator, whose pre- 

 vious career in tropical seas knew every resource of defence 

 from storm or danger ; and of a good and true ship's 

 company. The sea has taken toll, and the " Endeavour's " 

 work is finished. 



In years to come that work will be appreciated at its 

 proper value. No more capable man could have been chosen 

 to direct it than Harald Christian Dannevig, who combined 

 a knowledge of the habits and of the life of fish, acquired 

 from childhood, with the enthusiasm of one who loved his 

 profession and lived almost solely for it. Out in all weather, 

 in storm and sunshine, when he coitld have readily directed 

 the work from a comfortable office on shore, his one thought 

 and ambition was to succeed in bringing home to the many 

 doubting minds in Australia that there is a rich reserve of 

 food supply in the fisheries of our coast, simply waiting to 

 be harvested. 



From the coast of Queensland to those of Western AustraUa 

 a great portion of the sea-bed has been explored, and extensive 

 areas suitable for trawling and rich in food fishes have been 

 surveyed and charted. There is no monopoly of the sea- 

 bed ; there are no fences. It waits for enterprise and 

 industry ; and with care and reasonably good management 

 must yield profit to the harvester and, what is of greater 



