CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE 



Steel Ships and 

 Helicopters 



CARL WAS THIRTY-FIVE, fair-haired and blue-eyed like the 

 rest of his family and the chill Antarctic air had still not 

 reached the bones of his broad frame after seventeen 

 seasons whaling. His whale catcher was waiting for him 

 in South Georgia where with others she had been refitted 

 during the southern winter. The gunner already appoin- 

 ted to her had gone sick and to join her it was necessary to 

 take passage either in the British factory ship or in the 

 tanker assigned to the expedition. Carl went in the 

 Wanderer, the massive twenty-five-thousand-ton floating 

 factory. 



She carried a hundred men for the catchers and towing 

 boats as well as the four hundred who navigated her, 



