City of New York and the Bolling
alongside the Ross Ice Barrier, 1928,
Richard E. Byrd Papers #7820_21

Larsen in the Ice,
Bolling approaching, January 1929,
Richard E. Byrd Papers #7820_2
 

Byrd left the States on October 13, 1928, aboard the C.A. Larsen, headed for New Zealand.  The Bolling, City of New York, and James Clark Ross, all loaded with the necessary planes, dogs, men and equipment, and had been dispatched previously.   When all of the ships reached New Zealand, they condensed the load to only two ships, the Bolling and the City of New York.  The expedition ultimately would reach the Ross Ice Shelf on December 28, 1928.

Steamship Log Book, City of New York,
New York to Bay of Whales, via Panama,
Tahiti and Dunedin, N.Z., 1928 and 1929
Richard E. Byrd Papers, #5444.
 

Aerial view of the City of New York at
the bay ice in the Bay of Whales, 1929,
Richard E. Byrd Papers #7757_1