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A Terra Nova Mystery THE PUBLICATION OF THE NEW ZEALAND ANTARCTIC SOCIETY Vol 34, No. 1, 2016 34, No. Vol RRP $15.95 A Terra Nova Mystery 01 9 770003 532006 Vol 34, No. 1, 2016 Issue 235 Contents www.antarctic.org.nz is published quarterly by the New Zealand Antarctic Society Inc. ISSN 0003-5327 The New Zealand Antarctic Society is a Registered Charity CC27118 EDITOR: Lester Chaplow ASSISTANT EDITOR: Janet Bray New Zealand Antarctic Society PO Box 404, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand Email: [email protected] INDEXER: Mike Wing The deadlines for submissions to future issues are 1 May, 1 August, 1 November and 1 February. PATRON OF THE NEW ZEALAND ANTARCTIC SOCIETY: Professor Peter Barrett, 2008 NEW ZEALAND ANTARCTIC SOCIETY LIFE MEMBERS The Society recognises with life membership, those people who excel in furthering the aims and objectives of the Society or who have given 6 outstanding service in Antarctica. They are elected by vote at the Annual General Meeting. The number of life members can be no more From the Editor 1 than 15 at any one time. Current Life Members by the year elected: Note about the Antarctic Tartan 1 1. Jim Lowery (Wellington), 1982 2. Robin Ormerod (Wellington), 1996 3. Baden Norris (Canterbury), 2003 A Terra Nova Mystery 2 4. Bill Cranfield (Canterbury), 2003 5. Randal Heke (Wellington), 2003 Origins of Systematic Antarctic Research 4 6. Bill Hopper (Wellington), 2004 7. Arnold Heine (Wellington), 2006 8. Margaret Bradshaw (Canterbury), 2006 The Bar from Endeavour 2 6 9. Ray Dibble (Wellington), 2008 10. Norman Hardie (Canterbury), 2008 The Spoken Word 7 11. Colin Monteath (Canterbury), 2014 12. John Parsloe (Canterbury), 2014 The Origins of the Scott Base Huskies 10 13. Graeme Claridge (Wellington), 2015 ELECTED OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY: It’s a Dog’s Life in Antarctica 11 National President: Mariska Wouters South Island Vice-President: Margaret Bradshaw Visit by HMS Protector 12 North Island Vice-President: Linda Kestle National Secretary: Myra Walton National Treasurer: Lester Chaplow Worsley Enchanted Back cover Immediate Past-President: Jud Fretter BRANCH CHAIRS: Auckland: Linda Kestle Canterbury: Ursula Rack Wellington: Robin Falconer Cover photo: The headstone on the grave of PO Brissenden RN, French Pass, New Zealand. Photo courtesy of Mr Oliver Sutherland. Photo above: The bar on the ice. L–R: Lt. T. S. Jones RNZN; Capt. E. Rifenburgh USS Arneb; Lt. Cdr. D. G. Banfield RNZN; Lt. C. G. Ashbridge RNZN; Lt. Cdr. I. Hunter RNZN; Ldg. Steward O. Osbourne. Photo courtesy of US Navy and Captain Trevor Jones. Issue 235 From the Editor hank you for the comments received following This issue includes an article on the mysterious T my letter in the December 2015 issue of death of PO Robert Brissenden, a report on the visit Antarctic. I have received several articles and of HMS Protector to Lyttelton, and The Origins of reminiscences from readers and members, which will the Scott Base Huskies. The Spoken Word continues come to you over the next few issues. My apologies our look at the Society’s Oral History programme, for the later than planned delivery of this issue. and we consider the Origins of Systematic Antarctic One of the surprises, and delights, to me as Research. Completing our brief line-up of three Editor, is the reach of Antarctic – both to members Antarctic ships, we find out about The Bar from and institutions, in New Zealand and around the Endeavour 2. world. With copies of Antarctic scanned and online Antarctic has a job vacancy for a Photo Editor, (at www.antarctic.org.nz) a number of students, to source photos, and to obtain copyright clearances, researchers and other polar-focussed organisations etc. Please contact me if you might be interested. are accessing our back issues, and many make follow-up requests for more information. Recently, a Lester Chaplow photo of our Mrs Chippy bronze casting (an NZAS, Wellington project), reported in our June 2004 issue, was included in Cat Mews – the Journal of the Cats on Stamps Study Unit – together with an interview with Caroline Alexander, the author of Mrs Chippy’s Last Expedition. Note about Antarctic Tartan he Antarctic Tartan was designed in 2001 by Survey, has a unique dress made from the tartan. T Celtic Originals on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. All proceeds from the tartan’s sales go towards The colours forming the tartan are white, grey, Antarctic conservation. orange, yellow, black, pale blue and dark midnight blue. The symbolism is quite complex. The white represents the ice-covered continent, ice floes and icebergs. The grey represents outcropping rocks, seals and birds. Black represents penguins and whales. Orange represents lichen and part of the head plumage of king and emperor penguins. Yellow is the colour of the summer midnight sun. Pale blue represents the colour of deep crevasses and also the colour of ice under water. Dark blue represents the deep Southern Ocean and the darkness of Antarctic winter. Crossing pale-blue lines represent lines of latitude and longitude. The tartan has been fashioned into many items in addition to the cummerbunds aboard HMS Protector (see page 12). The UK Antarctic Trust has produced Antarctic tartan ties and soft wool scarves, while The Antarctic Tartan was first discussed Dr Jane Francis, Director of the British Antarctic in Antarctic, Vol 18, No. 3 & 4, 2001. Vol 34, No. 1, 2016 1 HISTORY A Terra Nova Mystery By Bill Conroy Was it an accident or was it something more sinister? Whatever the case, the annals of Captain Scott’s second polar expedition record the death of a Terra Nova crew member as “drowned”. But, an intriguing mystery remains. toker Petty Officer The story of Brissenden’s death inquest into Robert Brissenden’s Robert Brissenden RN, a and its aftermath were recorded in death and heard a large volume of S 34-year-old married man detail in The Nelson Evening Mail evidence, none of which answered with two children, from the village of 21 August 1912 (p. 5): At dawn the question of why a strong fit man of Eastry, in Kent, joined Terra Nova on Monday 19 August 1912 the should drown so close to the shore in June 1910 shortly before the ship drowned body of Brissenden was and in relatively shallow water. left Cardiff for New Zealand on the found in the sea at French Pass. It The court heard that there first leg of Captain Scott’s second was discovered partly under the had been a considerable amount expedition to Antarctica. In the wharf, face down with the arms of drinking going on amongst local two years that he was a member of outstretched and the lower limbs people on Saturday on or near the the crew, PO Brissenden made two together. There was no sign of a wharf but that none of the Terra trips to the Ice. Following the second struggle. According to the medical Nova party had been involved, and trip, Terra Nova underwent a refit in report, the body carried some there was no evidence to suggest Lyttelton during the winter of 1912. contusions behind the ears and along that widespread drinking had While the ship was undergoing the neck and a wound was found carried on into the evening. There repairs, Brissenden and most of on the scalp. The neck was broken, had been a fair amount of activity his shipmates, under the command but death was due to drowning. on and around the wharf between of Lieutenant Pennell, were sent The medical examiner expressed the 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. as two launches to French Pass, a small settlement opinion that the injuries to the head prepared to leave and the settlement’s in the Marlborough Sounds, to of the deceased were not consistent service launch (the Nikau) arrived. carry out survey work for the New with foul play. A parcel containing The deceased had last been seen Zealand Marine Department – by phonograph catalogues was found on the wharf at about 9.30 p.m. launch around the Marlborough on the body. Lieutenant Pennell told the Court Sounds and, more latterly, in nearby On 20 August, a local coroner, that from enquiries he had made he Admiralty Bay.1, 2 Mr J. S. Evans, conducted a lengthy was certain that the deceased was stunned before entering the water. The coroner did not question the witness on this claim. The Nelson Evening Mail went on to report that W. T. Webber said that he had seen Geo. Kassebaum (described as being under the influence of drink) on the wharf at about 9.30 p.m., and that there had been no one else about. Evidence indicated that Brissenden had been seen on the wharf between 9 p.m. and 9.30 p.m. and he had called out to Geo. Kassebaum to get off his (Kassebaum’s) brother’s boat, as it was departing, and to come up onto the wharf. In his evidence, The crew of the Terra Nova. Brissenden standing 5th from left. Photo courtesy of Dundee Heritage Trust. 2 Issue 235 HISTORYTRIBUTE Geo. Kassebaum claimed to have of the people, but not with the knew the true reason why he never been fairly sober on the Saturday Terra Nova men. Some of the returned to them. He sleeps in a and to remember the events of that evidence in many respects was grave on the hills overlooking the day, but some of his evidence would quite unsatisfactory, and left the wharf in Elmslie Bay, French Pass. It suggest otherwise. The various impression some of the witnesses is interesting to note that, possibly on times that he quoted were vague or were keeping back something.
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