"I came down here today to offer any help we can give you on the relief ship, and to make a suggestion to facilitate matters."
When the men returned to the Discovery, which had been frozen in the ice, a relief ship was waiting.
This now being inevitable, the relief ship provided an opportunity for some of the party to return home.
When a relief ship came for them, all were dead.
Actually, he played the part of stevedore as well for ten days on the relief ship.
It was nearly three weeks before her relief ship appeared.
And not less than five months will be necessary to build a new relief ship.
If it takes a year to build the relief ship, we will be comfortable.
They had to be trained in the new relief ship!
In 1916, a second relief ship was sent and ran into similar problems.