物語
This brig was built in 1860 by H.M. Dockyard (Pembroke).
歴史的注記
In 1879 Lieutenant-Commander George Washington De Long USN was given command of the USS Jeannette sailing from San Francisco for the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean. This vessel was crushed in the ice. Twenty of her crew of 33 were lost along with LCDR de Long, her skipper. Three years later relics of the ship were picked up thousands of miles away on the ice off the southwest coast of Greenland. On September 05, 1879 this vessel was caught in the ice and drifted until June 12, 1881 when this vessel was crushed and sank. Fourteen of the crew survived by walking to the Lena River in Siberia. De Long was lost on the Arctic ice sometime after October 10, 1881 His body was found the following March.
所有者と船長
H.M.S. Jeannette was originally a gunboat in the Royal Navy and was purchased by Sir Allan Young for his arctic voyages. The ship was purchased under the name Pandora in 1878 by James Gordon Bennett, owner of the New York Herald; and renamed Jeannette.
In 1879 she was owned by the United States Government, , Washington DC USA.
船長
Lieutenant-Commander G.W. DeLong USN (1879)
参考文献
- Newell, Gordon (Ed.) (1966)
- DeArmond, R.N. (1989)
- McKinlay, William Laird. (1976)
