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The Cosmopolitan Hotel and Restaurant in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park is an American registered national historic landmark, built in the early 19th century by Juan Bandini and later purchased by Albert Seeley to serve as a stagecoach hotel. In 2010, restorations and added fine dining restaurants revived the hotel to its 1870s charm ...
Lady Franklin Bay is in a generally northeast to southwest direction, and as such it spreads inland about 110 km (70 mi) from Hall Basin. The main bay contains one noted branch to the northwest known as Discovery Bay, and the interior lengths of Lady Franklin Bay extending southwest are sometimes shown on maps as Archer Fjord .
Proteus arrived without problems at Lady Franklin Bay by August 11, dropped off men and provisions, and left. [5] In the following months, Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood and Sergeant David Legge Brainard achieved a new Farthest North record at 83°24′N 40°46′W / 83.400°N 40.767°W / 83.400; -40.767 , off the north coast of ...
In 1881, he was appointed to command the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, a 25-man expedition organized to carry out Arctic explorations. The expedition ran short of food and several resupply and rescue missions were unsuccessful, and by the time Greely and his men were rescued in 1884, there were only six survivors.
1850–1851: First Grinnell expedition led by Edwin De Haven, the first American search for the members of Franklin's lost expedition, finds the graves of crew members John Torrington, William Braine and John Hartnell on Beechey Island; 1851: William Kennedy leads a search expedition for Franklin in the Prince Albert, sponsored by Lady Franklin
2741 San Diego Ave., Old Town 11/6/1970 14F: Congress Hall Site: 426 Calhoun St. & 408 Wallace St., Old Town December 6, 1932 Demolished in 1939 14G: Casa de Machado-Stewart: 2724 Congress St., Old Town 11/6/1970 14H: Mason Street School: 3960 Mason St., Old Town 11/6/1970 14I: The Exchange Hotel Site: San Diego Ave (Southside facing Plaza ...
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In the mid-1880s, she took part in the search for the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. [4] Commanded by Michael Healy of the United States Revenue-Marine, renamed the United States Revenue Cutter Service in 1894 (and one of the ancestor organizations of the United States Coast Guard), she worked the 20,000-mile (32,200 km) coastline of Alaska.