Ships of Discovery and Exploration
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: November 15, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780395984154
First sentence: Originally built as a merchant ship, Advance became the flagship of the first U.S. Arctic expedition in 1850 when she was purchased by the New York merchant Henry Grinnell and dispatched with Rescue to take part in the search for Sir John Franklin's HMS EREBUS and TERROR.