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Greenland Expedition with Sea Breeze

Colour film documenting one of H.W. Tilman’s expeditions on board ‘Sea Breeze’ to Greenland.

1971 52 mins Silent

Overview

Colour film of one of H.W. Tilman’s expeditions on board ‘Sea Breeze’ to Greenland. Documenting the sea journey from Lymington, includes a stop at port (possibly in Iceland), shows rough and icy seas encountered along the way. Views at Tasiilaq (a town in South-eastern Greenland). Film ends with scenes of a climber in the snow.

In 1968 Tilman’s party foundered off Jan Mayen Island, losing ‘Mischief’. He replaced her with his second Pilot Cutter, ‘Sea Breeze’. In 1969 he sailed ‘Sea Breeze’ to Iceland & Greenland, then to Greenland in 1970, 1971 and 1972 - but in 1972 was shipwrecked and lost her also. The primary aim of this journey, and indeed Tilman’s other sailing expeditions, was to find mountains to climb. Harold William Tilman (1898–1977) was a mountaineer and explorer. Aged 79, sailing with the ‘En Avant’ to Smith Island (South Shetlands) the boat disappeared without trace en route to the Falkland Islands.