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USS Jeannette was a naval exploration vessel which, commanded by George W. De Long, undertook the Jeannette expedition of 1879–1881 to the Arctic.After being trapped in the ice and drifting for almost two years, the ship and her crew of 33 were released from the ice, then trapped again, crushed and sunk some 300 nautical miles (560 km; 350 mi) north of the Siberian coast.
Jeannette at Le Havre in 1878, prior to her departure for San Francisco in a trip that would see her round Cape Horn. The Jeannette expedition of 1879–1881, officially called the U.S. Arctic Expedition, was an attempt led by George W. De Long to reach the North Pole by pioneering a route from the Pacific Ocean through the Bering Strait.
The Jeannette Monument is the largest monument in the United States Naval Academy Cemetery. [2] It memorializes the 1881 loss of USS Jeannette while exploring the Arctic ice. Jeannette , with a crew of 33, collapsed and sank under surging ice in the summer of 1881.
The ship is thought to have sunk with a huge amount of treasure aboard, ... Pictures taken of the wreck by navy divers last year show the wreck is still perfectly preserved, despite lying on the ...
The Jeanette left San Francisco on July 8, 1879 and was held fast in ice east of Wrangell Island by September. The ship drifted northwest in the ice for the rest of 1879, all of 1880 and landed at an island they named Henrietta Island, in honor of Bennett, on May 9, 1881. This was more than 600 miles from where they first became stuck.
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In The Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (), 2014, is a nonfiction book written by the author and historian Hampton Sides.The book tells the true story of the 1879–1881 arctic voyage of the USS Jeannette and the crew's struggle to survive after having to abandon their ship in the polar ice.
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