THE SHIP AND HER COMPLEMENT 



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The Galathea at anchor off Kondul, Nicobar Islands. 



California; Mexico; Panama; West Indies; the Azores; English Channel; 

 arrival Copenhagen, June 29; ship put out of commission, July 17, 1952. 



And so on October 15, 1950, the Galathea left Copenhagen; the next 

 day she rounded the Skaw and the Danish deep-sea expedition had begun. 

 A hundred men, most for the duration of the expedition, a few for only a 

 part of it, were to spend their life on board her, discharging their various 

 tasks but all cooperating to the common good in a national and inter- 

 national scientific operation. 



We carried all sorts of people: civilian scientists, young students and 

 others from all walks of life and localities doing their national service, 

 and regular naval personnel. It was a cross-section of the Danish nation 

 which thus went out to represent their country on this round-the-world 

 voyage. We visited 26 countries and called at about 70 different ports. 

 Altogether, we travelled a distance of 63,700 nautical miles, or some 

 118,000 kilometres; that is to say, about three times round the earth at 

 the Equator. Our propellers made nearly 85,000,000 revolutions, and 

 our turbines over 10,000,000,000! 



