"Blue Dolphin" Sails For Labrador Again

THE Blue Dolphin, the 100-foot floating laboratory for oceanographic studies skippered by Cdr. David C. Nutt '41, USNR, arctic specialist at the Dartmouth College museum, set sail June 22 for a fourth summer voyage to arctic waters. The expedition will work near the Hamilton Inlet-Lake Melville estuary in southern Labrador for most of the summer, but a month of operations in northern Labrador is also planned. The schooner will return to Boothbay Harbor, her starting port, in mid-September.

Last summer's explorations were in the same region in southern Labrador. Winter observations by a Dartmouth party in March of this year were the first ever conducted in the area.

Aboard the Blue Dolphin this summer will be a crew of 18 men, several of whom have sailed on previous voyages. Seven Dartmouth men will be in the group- Lawrence Coachman '47, John Tangerman '53, Tony Morse '52 and Edgar Miller '51, all veterans of other trips north, and newcomers Coleman Dorsey '52, Hubert Bush '53 and Donald Charbonnier '55. There will also be two marine biologists from Cornell, an oceanographer and a lab assistant from Harvard, and an electronics and communications man from Bowdoin.

This summer's expedition will be sponsored jointly by the Office of Naval Research, Dartmouth College, the Arctic Institute of North America, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and the U.S. Hydrographic Office.