USS Jeannette logbooks, 1879-1881
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Lee, Walter, 1840-1881
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Walter Lee (b. 1840-d. October 22, 1881, Lena Delta, Russia) was a crew member of the USS Jeannette which was crushed by ice and sank June 6, 1881 in the Arctic Sea north of Siberia while undertaking an expedition to find the "Polar Sea". The cruise had originated at San Francisco, California, on July 8, 1879. Originally buried with other crew members just north of Bulun on the Lena River delta, he was reburied at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York....
Starr, Edward, -1881
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Edward Starr (b. unknown-d. September 1881, at sea), was a crew member of the USS Jeannette which was crushed by ice and sank June 6, 1881, in the Arctic Sea north of Siberia while undertaking an expedition to find the "Polar Sea". The cruise had originated at San Francisco, CA on July 8, 1879. Eventually the crew found open sea and Starr and seven other crew members set sail for the northern Siberian coast, all in one of three small boats, his skippered by the Jeannette's Executive Officer, Li...
De Long, George Washington, 1844-1881
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George Washington De Long (b. August 22, 1844, Manhattan, New York-d. October 31, 1881, Matvay Hut, Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, Russia), United States Naval Officer and explorer. He graduated form the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, in 1865, then rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander. In 1879 he commanded an expedition on board the gunboat "USS Jeannette" designed to discover a faster way to traverse the North Pole by going through the Bering Strait. During the summer of 188...
Gortz, Carl A., 1844-1881
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Carl A. Gortz (b. 1844-d. October 30, 1881, Lena Delta, Russia) was a crew member of the USS Jeannette which was crushed by ice and sank June 6, 1881 in the Arctic Sea north of Siberia while undertaking an expedition to find the "Polar Sea". The cruise had originated at San Francisco, CA on July 8, 1879. Originally Gortz was buried with other crew members just north of Bulun on the Lena River delta, but his body was later retrieved and reburied in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York....
Collins, Jerome J., 1841-1881
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Meteorologist and New York Herald correspondent aboard the USS Jeannette that sailed from San Francisco, CA on July 8, 1879 on an expedition to the Arctic region in search of the "Polar Sea". The ship became trapped by and eventually crushed by ice and sank almost two years later. The crew carrying as many supplies as possible and towing three smaller craft struck out through the ice fields searching for open water and a route to northern Siberia and eventual rescue. In September of 1881, the cr...
Chipp, Charles Winans, 1848-1881
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Charles Winans Chipp (b. August 23, 1848, Kingston, New York-last seen on September 12, 1881, Arctic Ocean, Siberia, Russia), was an American naval officer and explorer. He was educated at the United States Naval Academy in Newport, Rhode Island and Annapolis, Maryland. After graduating in 1868, he served in the steam frigate USS Franklin, flagship of the European Squadron. In 1871, he participated in the United States expedition to Korea. In 1873 he served in USS Juniata when that ship was o...
Johnson, Peter E., -1881
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Peter E. Johnson (b. unknown-d. September 1881, at sea), was a crew member of the USS Jeannette which was crushed by ice and sank June 6, 1881, in the Arctic Sea north of Siberia while undertaking an expedition to find the "Polar Sea". The cruise had originated at San Francisco, CA on July 8, 1879. Eventually the crew found open sea and Johnson and seven other crew members set sail for the northern Siberian coast, all in one of three small boats, his skippered by the Jeannette's Executive Offic...
Danenhower, John Wilson, 1849-1887
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John W. Danenhower was an Arctic navigator who participated in the Jeannette Expedition (1879-1881) under the command of Lieutenent Commander George Washington DeLong. The steamship became trapped in the ice while attempting to reach the North Pole during the Spring of 1881. Danenhower was one of the few survivors of this tragic expedition. He returned to Oswego, New York after the failed expedition and later married Helen Sloan. They went on to have two children, one being Sloan Danenhower. Joh...
Leach, Herbert W., 1858-1935
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Herbert W. Leach (b. 1858, Hancock County, Maine-d. 1935, Maine), perhaps the first Mainer with polar ambitions was Herbert W. Leach, from North Penobscot, Maine. Born in 1858 in Hancock County, Maine, he joined the expedition to the North Pole on the steam ship Jeannette from San Francisco led by Lieutenant Commander G. W. DeLong on 3 July, 1879. The long ordeal is beyond the scope of this blog but the ship got frozen into the ice for two years and rode with the ice pack for thirteen hundred mi...
Sweetman, Alfred, -1881
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Alfred Sweetman (b. unknown-d. September 1881, at sea), was a crew member of the USS Jeannette which was crushed by ice and sank June 6, 1881, in the Arctic Sea north of Siberia while undertaking an expedition to find the "Polar Sea". The cruise had originated at San Francisco, CA on July 8, 1879. Eventually the crew found open sea and Sweetman and seven other crew members set sail for the northern Siberian coast, all in one of three small boats, his skippered by the Jeannette's Executive Offic...
Manson, Frank E., 1851-1904
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Frank E. Manson (b. December 24, 1851, Sweden-d. March 23, 1904, Schoolcraft County, Michigan), was a seaman aboard the USS Jeannette that sailed from San Francisco on July 8, 1879 in search of the "Polar Sea". The ship became trapped in the ice and eventually crushed forcing its abandonment on June 6, 1881. The ship's crew set off across the ice fields in search of open water, towing three small boats and as many supplies as possible. In September they finally were able to launch their boats, M...
Kaack, Heinrick H., 1875-1881
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Heinrick H. Kaack (b. 1857-d. October 21, 1881, Lena Delta, Russia), was a crew member of the USS Jeannette which was crushed by ice and sank June 6, 1881 in the Arctic Sea north of Siberia while undertaking an expedition to find the "Polar Sea". The cruise had originated at San Francisco, CA on July 8, 1879. Originally buried with other crew members just north of Bulun on the Lena River delta....
Noros, Louis P., 1850-1927
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Louis P. Noros (b. 1850, Tiverton, Rhode Island-d. April 3, 1927, Fall River, Massachusetts), was a crew member of USS Jeannette Expedition which departed San Francisco on July 8, 1879 on an Arctic expedition, Captain George W De Long commanding. On September 9, 1879, ship became trapped in ice near Herald Island, on the Siberian coast. The Jeannette subsequently was crushed and sank June 12, 1881. Louis Noros departed vessel in one of three cutters with Captain De Long and twelve other crewman,...
Bartlett, James Holley, 1848-1892
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James Holley Bartlett (b. 1848-d. Oct. 30, 1892, San Francisco, California) served as a fireman on the Jeannett Expedition, 1879-1881. He was one of few survivors. He died of self-inflicted gunshot wound on October 30, 1892....
Nindemann, William Friedrich Carl, 1850-1913
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William Friedrich Carl Nindemann (b. April 22, 1850, Gingst, Germany-d. May 16, 1913, Hollis, Queens County, New York), was a member of three Arctic expeditions: Polaris Expedition, 1871-1873; the Jeannette Expedition, 1879-1881, of which he was among a small number of survivors, and; the rescue party for the Greely Expedition, 1883-1884....
Sharvell, Walter, -1881
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Walter Sharvell (b. unknown-d. September 1881, lost at sea), was a crew member of the USS Jeannette which was crushed by ice and sank June 6, 1881, in the Arctic Sea north of Siberia while undertaking an expedition to find the "Polar Sea". The cruise had originated at San Francisco, CA on July 8, 1879. Eventually the crew found open sea and Sharvell and seven other crew members set sail for the northern Siberian coast, all in one of three small boats, his skippered by the Jeannette's Executive ...
Dressler, Adolph, 1857-1881
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Adolph Dressler (b. 1857-d. October 29, 1881, Lena Delta, Russia), Seaman, was a crew member of the USS Jeannette which was crushed by ice and sank June 6, 1881, in the Arctic Sea north of Siberia while undertaking an expedition to find the "Polar Sea". The cruise had originated at San Francisco, California, on July 8, 1879. He was originally buried with other crew members just north of Bulun on the Lena River delta, but later removed and buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York....
Warren, Henry D., 1850-1881
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Henry D. Warren (b. May 30, 1850-d. September 1881, at sea), was a crew member of the USS Jeannette which was crushed by ice and sank June 6, 1881, in the Arctic Sea north of Siberia while undertaking an expedition to find the "Polar Sea". The cruise had originated at San Francisco, CA on July 8, 1879. Eventually the crew found open sea and Warren and seven other crew members set sail for the northern Siberian coast, all in one of three small boats, his skippered by the Jeannette's Executive Of...
Iverson, Neils, 1848-1881
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Neils Iverson (b. 1848-d. Oct. 28, 1881) was a crew member of the USS Jeannette which was crushed by ice and sank June 6, 1881 in the Arctic Sea north of Siberia while undertaking an expedition to find the "Polar Sea". The cruise had originated at San Francisco, CA on July 8, 1879. Originally buried with other crew members just north of Bulun on the Lena River delta. He was later reburied in Woodlan Cemetery, Bronx, New York)...
Cole, John, 1834-1884
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John Cole (b. 1834-d. April 1884, Washington, D.C.), served as Boatswain's Mate aboard the USS Jeannette that sailed from San Francisco on July 8, 1879, in search of the "Polar Sea". The ship became trapped in the ice and eventually crushed forcing its abandonment on June 6, 1881. The ship's crew set off across the ice fields in search of open water, towing three small boats and as many supplies as possible. In September they finally were able to launch their boats, Cole and ten others in a whal...
Jeannette Expedition (1879-1881)
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The Jeannette Expedition of 1879–1881, officially 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 premise was that a temperate current, the Kuro Siwo, flowed northwards into the strait, providing a gateway to the Open Polar Sea and thus to the pole. This theory proved illusory; the expedition's ship, USS Jeannette and its crew of 33, was trapped by ice and drifted for nearly tw...
Erichson, Hans H., -1881
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Hans H. Erichson (d. October 6, 1881, near the Lena Delta, Russia), was a crew member of the USS Jeannette which was crushed by ice and sank June 6, 1881, in the Arctic Sea north of Siberia while undertaking an expedition to find the "Polar Sea". The cruise had originated at San Francisco, California, on July 8, 1879....
Jeannette (Ship)
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USS Jeannette was a naval exploration vessel which, under the command of George W. De Long, undertook an ill-fated 1879–1881 voyage to the Arctic. After being trapped in the ice and drifting for almost two years, the ship and its 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 entire crew survived the sinking, but 11 died while sailing towards land in a small cutter. The other 22 reached Siberia...
