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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.
USS Jeannette (1878), was formerly a Royal Navy gunboat HMS Pandora, launched in 1861, purchased by the US Navy in 1878 for an expedition to the North Pole, and sunk in 1881 in the Arctic Ocean; USS Jeannette (SP-149), was launched in 1905, acquired by the US Navy in 1917 for service as a patrol craft during World War I, and sold in 1920
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.
Tugboats led the Dali to a local marine terminal after a successful effort to make the container ship buoyant at about 6:40 a.m. EDT (1040 GMT), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said on social ...
Wreckage found at Greenland from USS Jeannette, which was lost off Siberia, and driftwood found in the regions of Svalbard and Greenland, suggested that an ocean current flowed beneath the Arctic ice sheet from east to west, bringing driftwood from the Siberian region to Svalbard and further west.
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