Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
He was transferred
from ship to ship and
went from being
ranked as an ordinary
seaman, to an able
seaman, to a petty
officer (second class).
In Dec 1901 at the age of 23 while in New Zealand he had
a chance encounter with Robert Falcon Scott, a Royal Navy
officer and commander of a major Polar expedition.