Douglas Clavering collection 1823-1824

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Douglas Clavering collection 1823-1824

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Expedition material (178 leaves) and correspondence (220 leaves)

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Scott Polar Research Institute

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SNAC Resource ID: 6285219

Scott Polar Research Institute

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Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788-1883

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Edward Sabine was born in 1788 and joined the Royal Artillery in 1803. While stationed on the Niagara frontier of Canada he began his studies into natural history, which were eventually to encompass ornithology, meteorology and the study of terrestrial magnetism. The latter study was his particular specialism and led to his attachment to the Arctic expeditions of John Ross (1777-1856) in the Isabella (1818) and Edward Parry (1790-1855) in the Hecla (1819-1820). During his long career he rose to ...

British Naval Scientific Expedition Greenland 1823

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Great Britain. Admiralty

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HMS Cleopatra operated out of Halifax during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, sailing as far south as the West Indies. Sir Robert Laurie became captain in August 1804 and in 1805 became renowned for his action against the superior French ship Ville de Milan. From the description of By the commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ... (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 778951118 In 1764...

Foster, Henry, 1796-1831

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Douglas Charles Clavering

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Douglas Charles Clavering was born on 8 September 1794 in Holyrood House in Edinburgh. He entered the Navy circa 1808, later serving as midshipman in HMS Shannon, employed in protecting British trade off the coast of North America. Promoted lieutenant, he served on the North America Station and in the Mediterranean until 1821 when he was appointed commander of HMS Pheasant, sailing with the astronomer Edward Sabine in a voyage to conduct pendulum observations in the Atlantic. ...

Griper (Warship)

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Scoresby William 1787-1857

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Clavering Douglas Charles 1794-1827

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