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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.
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.
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.
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.
James Markham Marshall Ambler (December 30, 1848 – October 30, 1881) was an American naval surgeon who served on the USS Jeannette and perished during the Jeannette expedition, in 1881, while attempting to reach the North Pole. Ambler was born in December 1848 in Markham, Virginia.
In 2017, researchers discovered the wreckage of the USS Indianapolis at 18,000 feet below the Philippine Sea. News of the discovery came from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who led a 13-person ...
The Voyage of the Jeannette: The Ship and Ice Journals of George W. De Long. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. OCLC 4285879. Ellsberg, E. (1938). Hell on Ice: the Saga of the Jeannette. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. OCLC 486495. Kam, Ralph Thomas (2009). "Commemorating the Grand Army of the Republic in HawaiĘ»i: 1882–1930". Hawaiian Journal of History. 43.
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