Starkweather-Moore Antarctic Expedition
Equipment Manifest Number 2
no.| description | stored in |lbs. ea.| total
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2 | Ford M-7 snow tractors, cap. 750# cargo, tow 3000# | #1 tween | 657kg | 1315kg
3 | 300 watt generators, gasoline powered, on skids | #1 tween | 36 kg | 108 kg
1 | heavy crate w.derrick, bracing struct for drill | #1 tween | 453kg | 453kg
1 | heavy crate w. generator, motors & drill-head | #1 tween | 453kg | 1453kg
1 | frame cont. w. jointed drill-pipe, 12' lengths | #1 tween | 453kg | 453kg
1 | heavy crate w. electrical ice-melting equipment | #1 tween | 453kg | 453kg
2 | crated windmill generator, cplt w. 12' tripod | #1 tween | 136kg | 272kg
2 | kerosene stoves for base camp | #3 tween | 11kg | 22kg
2 | chalkboard, 4' x 4' on stand | #3 tween | 15kg | 31kg
6 | blowtorch | #3 tween | 2kg | 13kg
4 | kerosene lanterns | #3 tween | 1kg | 3,5kg
3 | boxed set cooking gear for camp (pots and pans) | #3 tween | 9kg | 27kg
2 | camp radio with antenna | #3 tween | 90kg | 181kg
4 | trail radio with antenna | #3 tween | 100 | 400
20 | trail radio battery | #3 tween | 20 | 400
6 | field telephone w. telegraph key | #3 tween | 20 | 120
32 | telephone battery | #3 tween | 1 | 32
1 | spool 8,000' telephone wire | #3 tween | 8 | 8
5 | bag, set aircraft tools | #3 tween | 50 | 250
1 | crate tools (vise, sm lathe, files, drill, &c.) | #3 tween | 300 | 300
1 | chest carpentry tools:base (saws hammers etc.) | #3 tween | 50 | 50
1 | box, w. various nails & carpentry supplies | #3 tween | 50 | 50
2 | sled, 900 board feet lumber for base | #3 tween | 4,000 | 8,000
1 | pallet, w. 6 rolls tar paper | #3 tween | 380 | 380
1 | box, set film developing equipment & chemicals | #3 tween | 35 | 35
10 | Nansen cookers & primus stoves | #3 tween | 25 | 250
2 | crate 1 doz. settings plates, mugs, utensils | #3 tween | 15 | 30
12 | buckets (to melt water in) | #3 tween | 2 | 24
12 | 4 person bellows-entrance tents, w. poles. etc. | #3 tween | 50 | 600
20 | 5-pole sledding tents | #3 tween | 10 | 200
40 | canvas and goosedown sleeping bags | #3 tween | 16 | 640
8 | box, w. 6 cnt. of 60 'lifeboat' style matches | #3 tween | 5 | 40
6 | flags (2 U.S., 2 Brit., 2 M.U.) on short poles | #3 tween | 5 | 30
40 | pair snowshoes | #3 tween | 6 | 240
10 | pair skis, bindings, and poles | #3 tween | 12 | 120
12 | shovels | #3 tween | 3 | 36
6 | axes | #3 tween | 5 | 30
4 | bow saws | #3 tween | 4 | 16
6 | 600' coils. alpine rope | #3 tween | 40 | 240
12 | bagged sets pitons, slings, other climbing gear | #3 tween | 7 | 84
12 | ice axes | #3 tween | 5 | 60
8 | Nansen sleds, 12' long, 2' wide, 1000# cap. | #3 tween | 100 | 800
8 | sled meters | #3 tween | 3 | 24
4 | box with 1" flare pistol and 10 flares | #3 tween | 4 | 16
3 | metal box, 10 calcium flares (burn for 10 min.) | #3 tween | 20 | 60
6 | cerise marker panels to signal aircraft | #3 tween | n/a | n/a
6 | electric signal lamp (needs power source) | #3 tween | 3 | 18
3 | oxygen snow tents | #3 tween | 50 | 150
1 | heavy cargo ramp for unloading ship | #3 lower | l,500 | l,500
36 | malamute sled dogs - usually 9-11 per sled | #5 tween | 90 | 3,240
— | bunks, benches, etc. for base Camp | #5 lower | — | 800
150 | 8' bamboo poles | #5 lower | 2 | 300
20 | 12' x 12' timbers, 18' long for base shelters | #5 lower | 1,300 |26,000
10 | 24' telephone poles for base masts and bridging | #5 lower | 500 | 5,000
5 | Brace and clamp sets for panel huts | #5 lower | 172 | 860
190 | insulated panel, for 5 panel huts | #5 lower | 106 | 20140
SUBTOTAL __217,521
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Starkweather-Moore Antarctic Expedition
Equipment Manifest Number 5
no.| description | stored in |lbs. ea.| total
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- aboard ship for ice operations:
1 | spare rudder and rudder assembly | on deck aft | 2,100 | 2,100
1 | spare ship's propeller | on deck aft | 2,700 | 2,700
1 | raft built atop oil drums (for help unloading) | on deck aft | 1,100 | 1,100
40 | bags, quick setting cement | #4 tween | 40 | 1,600
2 | case of 48 sticks ammonia-gelatin dynamite | #4 tween | 60 | 120
2 | set, welding equipment | bosun stores | 220 | 440
8 | mallet | bosun stores | 8 | 64
8 | large hammer | bosun stores | 2 | 16
1 | wooden box, 100 no.6 non-electric blasting caps | bosun stores | 10 | 10
6 | coil (50') of time blasting fuse | bosun stores | 10 | 60
8 | large crowbar | bosun stores | 4 | 32
12 | ice scrapers | bosun stores | 3 | 36
12 | snow shovels | bosun stores | 3 | 36
12 | stiff brooms for sweeping ice off ship | bosun stores | 2 | 24
4 | ice anchors (really big hooks) | bosun stores | 180 | 720
SUBTOTAL __9,058
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Starkweather-Moore Antarctic Expedition
Equipment Manifest Number 6
no.| description | stored in |lbs. ea.| total
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- food for operations away from ship:
30 | crate, w. 30 1/2# cans sardines | #3 tween | 20 | 600
4 | box, w. 8 cans 4 oz. pepper | #3 tween | 2 | 8
2 | box, w. 8 jars 6 oz. mustard | #3 tween | 3 | 6
2 | box, w. 8 jars 2 oz. tabasco sauce | #3 tween | 1 | 2
4 | crate, w. 40 jars 8 oz. marmalade | #3 tween | 25 | l00
1 | box, w. 8 bottles 3 oz. worcestershire sauce | #3 tween | 2 | 2
4 | box, w. 80 boxes 4 oz. raisins | #3 tween | 22 | 88
3 | crate, w. 150 jars 8 oz. orange syrup | #3 tween | 75 | 225
3 | crate, w. 150 jars 8 oz. grape syrup | #3 tween | 75 | 225
16 | box, w. 9 boxes, ea. w. 4 slabs 1# chocolate | #3 tween | 40 | 640
48 | crate, w. 12 box, ea. 6 12 oz wheat&oat biscuit | #3 tween | 60 | 2,880
14 | box, w. 20 boxes of 1/2# cubed sugar | #3 tween | 12 | 48
4 | box, w. 27 boxes of 4 oz. w. bouillon cubes | #3 tween | 8 | 32
10 | sack, 10# sugar | #3 tween | 10 | 100
8 | bag, 12# all-purpose flour | #3 tween | 12 | 96
4 | can, 2# baking powder | #3 tween | 2 | 8
4 | box, 1# baking soda | #3 tween | 1 | 4
1 | box, w. 12 drums 2# salt | #3 tween | 25 | 25
5 | crate, w. 12 boxes of 4# oatmeal | #3 tween | 50 | 250
30 | crate, w. 2 boxes, w. 24 cans 1# butter | #3 tween | 52 | 1,560
25 | crate, w. 32 cans 20 oz. powderd milk | #3 tween | 43 | 1,075
1 | chest, w. 4 boxes tea, 16 tins 12 oz. each | 3# tween | 55 | 55
2 | crate, w. 6 boxes of 2# dried apricots | 3# tween | 12 | 24
8 | crate, w. 4 boxes each w. 24 cans 12 oz. prunes | #3 tween | 75 | 600
20 | cases, w. 24 cans 2# baked beans | #3 tween | 55 | 1,100
6 | jar, 1 gallon sour cream | reefer space | 10 | 60
8 | crate, each w. 22 boxes of a dozen eggs | reefer space | 60 | 480
4 | tub, 20# of lard | reefer space | 22 | 88
192 | crate, w. 90 blecks 1/2# pemmican (men & dogs) | reefer space | 50 | 9,600
5 | sides of bacon | reefer space | 50 | 250
SUBTOTAL __20,231
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Starkweather-Moore Antarctic Expedition
Equipment Manifest Number 7
no.| description | stored in |lbs. ea.| total
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4 | canvas plane covers, 38' on a side | on planes | 150 | 600
6 | heating hoods for engines | on planes | 10 | 60
2 | case, with movie camera, tripods and film | deckhouse | 130 | 260
2 | guitar | deckhouse | n/a | n/a
2 | harmonica | deckhouse | n/a | n/a
3 | still camera set | deckhouse | 25 | 75
| - camera, lenses, tripod, film, 50 flashbulbs, | | |
| - IR filters | | |
1 | case biology, zoology, and botany instruments | deckhouse | 25 | 25
| - microscopes, slides | | |
1 | straitjacket | Graves' cabin | 5 | 5
3 | pairs handcuffs | Graves' cabin | n/a | n/a
1 | case of 24 bottles various "medicinal" liquor | Graves' cabin | 30 | 30
1 | medicine chest with surgical and drug supplies | doc's cabin | 28 | 28
1 | doctor's medical bag, for use on trail | doc's cabin | 12 | 12
| - includes injectable morphine | | |
1 | box, tobacco and cigarettes | SME office | 8 | 8
1 | case. with typewriter, paper and carbon paper | SME office | 35 | 35
1 | crate var. navigational instruments and charts | SME office | 50 | 50
12 | binoculars, 7x50mm | SME office | 2 | 24
1 | case astronomy instruments and notebook | SME office | 26 | 26
| - Geiger-Muller counter for cosmic ray studies | | |
| - quartz spectrographs to study sun and sky | | |
| - spectra | | |
4 | case meteorology instruments and texts | SME office | 13 | 52
2 | chest paleontology equipment | SME office | 10 | 20
| - reference works, wire brushes, small 'dental' | | |
| - tools, charting equipment | | |
6 | chest, geology-cartography tools | SME office | 40 | 240
| - stakes, survey theodolite on aluminum tripod, | | |
| - rock hammers, sample bags, drafting tools | | |
2 | chest, geophysics set | SME office | 12 | 24
| - precision compass and magnetometer | | |
2 | chest, chemistry sampling and test equipment | SME office | 10 | 20
| - test tubes, beakers & other glassware, bunsen | | |
| - burners, test chemicals, tongs, stoppers | | |
| - thermometers, reference works | | |
4 | crate, 6 caustic soda canisters | bosun stores | 25 | 100
SUBTOTAL __1,694
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4 | Boeing model DC-3 | "4, "2 tween | 16,865 | 67,460
2 | spare pratt and whitney "wasp" S1H1 engines | #2 tween | 800 | 1,600
SUBTOTAL 69,060
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- clothing supplies (ISSUED INDIVIDUALLY)
40 | set of parkas, hooded anoraks, and pants
40 | camel hair balaklavas
40 | set windproof linen oversuits
40 | pair of gloves and mittens, with lanyards sewn on
200 | set of silk, linen and wool underclothes
80 | wool jersy sweaters
40 | flannel shirts
40 | heavy trouers or overalls
240 | pair of wool socks
40 | pair of sea boots
40 | pair lauger-kock boots
40 | pair finneskoe
40 | set, sled pulling harness
40 | mountaineering googles
40 | sheat knives
SUBTOTAL 1,640
