New-York tribune., 1881-12-21
TIE VESSEL AND HER OFFICERS.

The Jeanette bark-rGgcd steam yacht Of i39
tons and 200 horse power, built under the name
of the Pandora, at Portsmouth, England, in 1861,
as dispatch boat and tender for the Mediterranean
fleet, by the British Government. Sho measured
80 feet long and % feet beam, and was Of uuusu-
ally strong build. Her speed was rated at from
seven TO eight knots an hour. After -erying in the
British Navy 4 while she was purchased by Sir
Allan Young who made q search with her for traces
OF the Franklin expedition. She purchased for
500 900 by James Gordon Bennett in ISIS, and
renamed after his sister Jeanette Mrs. Isaac Boil,
ir., on July of that year. at Chcrbourg, France
whence she sailed for San Francisco.
BY special act OF Congress the Jeanette was reg
istered as an American vessel. Mr.. Bennett then
had her strengthened by extra bracng, etc, and
fitted out with scientific and other kinds Of appl-
ances aud three years provisions for an exploring
VOYAGE toward the North Pole by the way Of Brh-
ring Strait On July g. 1879, she sailed from san
Francisco at 3 p. H.. under the command Of Lieu
tenant George w. DeLong, L. S. ~, whe had pre-
vously visited the Arctic Seas as al officer ot The
Juniata in search Of the los. Polaris in 1873. The
executive officer Of the Jeanette, Lieutenant
Charles W. Chip, and the navigator and hydro
rrapher Lieutenant John W. Dancuhauer werc
also officers of the TCress expedition. The other
officers Of the Jeanette were: Chief Engineer
George W. Melville, engineer; Dr. James NJ. NJ. Am
bier passed assistant surgeon Jerome j. Collins,
meteorologst; Raymond l.. Newcomh, ta2ider-
mist; and William Dunbar, icc-pilot. The
crew were: l.. 7. Noras II. W. Leach,
II. D. Warner. J. H. Bartlett, George Stephenson,
Adolph Drcssler c. A. Gortz. p L. johnson, II.
Wilson Edward Star, II. II. Erickson, H. II. Knack,
n. Iyorson. A. &. Kuihue, seamen; &. w. Boyd, w.
Nin!ennan, Alfred Sweetman, carpenters; Walter
Lee machinist George Yandertach, coal-heayer;
John Cole boatswan; Long Sing, steward; Sam,
cook Al Sing cabin boy.
On September g. following her departure from
the Golden Gate. the Jeannette was seen by
vhacrs far 10 nor Inward. steering in the direction
of WrangcN Land From that time until the present
nothing definite has been learned OF her, although
several search expeditions have been sent after her
and after two whalers which disappeared at about
the same time II has since been asccrtaincd that
one of the whalers crushed in the lee and the
other abandoned. The vessels sent 10 tine
relief Of the Jeanette by the United
states were tha Corwin. which made
two voyages in 1880 and in 1881, making on
the latter the first landing Wraugell Land; the
Alliance which made this year a cruise from Sptz-
bergen to Greenland; and the Rodgers, which this
wear circumnaygatcd Wrangcl Land, proving it to
be an island. close watch was meanwhile kept
by tho Arctic colOnists at Lady Franklin Bay for
the missing ship, but all with no success.
George w. DeLOng, the commander OF the
Jeanette, held The rank Of lieutenant when he
sailed, but he was promoted to heutenant-com-
mandcr on November J. 1879. He was born in this
city in 1874, and was appointed an acting-midship-
man to the Naval Academy October l, 1861. He
was graduated in 1865 at the Naval Academy, and
served on the Canandaigua, in the European Squad
ron, until 1869, being promoted in the meantime
TO ensign December l, 1866, TO master March -,
1868, and TO lieutenant March 20. 1869. lie re-
manned OH waiting orders few months after his re-
turn from the Canandagua, and then was ordered
to the Lancaster, flagship Of the South Atlantic
feet. in 1870 He was placed on sick-leaye he fol-
lowing year, and was permitted TO go TO Europe.
In January 1873 he was ordered 10 the Juniata, as
navigating officer the vessel at that time being de-
tailed to take ocean soundings The following June
the vessel was orered to the Arctic Ocean in search
of the Polaris and the Buddington party, which was
still missing
Lieutenant DeLong volunteered TO accompany
the Juniata and sun.ringcntcd the fitting up Of the