The call of the sea was strong, and soon Villiers was back at sea when the great explorer and whaler Carl Anton Larsen and his whaling factory ship, the "Sir James Clark Ross" came to port with five whale chasers in tow in late 1923. His accounts of the trip would eventually be published as "Whaling in the Frozen South". Named for the Antarctica explorer James Clark Ross, the "Ross" was the largest whale factory ship in the world, weighing in at 12,000 tons. She was headed for the southern Ross Sea, the last whale stronghold left. Villiers writes: "We had caught 228, most of them blues, the biggest over 100 feet long. These yielded 17,000 barrels of oil; we had hoped for at least 40,000, with luck 60,000."