sentences:  In the spring of 1937, a three-mast, tern schooner, "Donald II", was purchased in Nova Scotia and brought to Port Newark, New Jersey, where new motors were installed and the ship reinforced and reconditioned for the expedition.It was rechristened the "Gen. A. W. Greely" on May 2, 1937, in honor of Adolphus Greely, leader of the ill-fated Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881 and 1882.All expedition members paid their own way either by supplying necessary equipment or cash.