Epithet: Lieutenant; RN
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Alexander John Smith served in 1836 on the British Relief Expedition from Hull (leader James Clark Ross) as mate on board HMS Cove . The expedition was organized to rescue the crews of eleven whaling vessels, which had been beset and forced to winter in Davis Strait in the Arctic in 1835.
Smith went on to serve on the British naval expedition, 1839-1843 (leader James Clark Ross), as mate on board HMS Erebus . The voyage was organized primarily to conduct a series of magnetic observations in the southern hemisphere and to locate and reach the South Magnetic Pole if possible.
From the guide to the Alexander Smith collection, 1841-1844, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)
