The exploring steam yacht "Jeannette" and her officers.
[S.l. : s.n.,
1879?]
"Delong, commander - Ambler. surgeon - Melville, engineer - Newcomb. astonomer - Dunbar, pilot - Collins, Herald correspondent - Danenhower 2nd officer - Chipp, exec. officer."
Jeannette, a bark-rigged wooden steamship, was built in 1861 at Pembroke Dockyard, England, as the British gunvessel Pandora.  She was purchased by New York newspaper publisher James Gordon Bennett in 1878 and renamed Jeannette. Lieutenant George W. DeLong, USN, sailed her from Europe to San Francisco, California. On 8 July 1879 the Jeannette, privately owned but Navy operated, left San Francisco under DeLong's command for an attempt to reach the North Pole. His crew included four other Navy officers, twenty-three enlisted men and three civilians. Visiting Alaska, she stopped at Unalaska and Saint Michael, passed through the Bering Strait and then headed for Wrangell Island. Near there, on 6 September 1879, she entered the Arctic ice, where she was soon frozen in. During the next twenty-two months the drifting ice carried the ship several hundred miles to the northwest, until on June 12, 1881 her hull was broken open when ice flows rapidly converged after opening a few days previously. Jeannette sank the following morning, after her crew had removed boats, equipment and provisions in preparation for a months-long journey on foot across the desolate ice to reach open water north of Siberia. In the end, of the thirty-three who set off after the ship went down, only thirteen of Jeannette's men survived their adventures.
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