• The first USS Hecla was a bomb brig that served in the United States Navy from 1846 to 1848, seeing service in the Mexican War. Hecla was purchased at...
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  • USS Hecla may refer to more than one United States Navy ship: USS Hecla (1846), a bomb brig purchased in 1846 and sold in 1848 after service in the Mexican...
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  • Lieutenant Arthur Sinclair USS Fredonia, Lieutenant Frederick A. Neville USS Germantown, Commander Franklin Buchanan USS Hecla, (ex-I.L. Richardson), Lieutenant...
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    DD-531) USS Hazleton (SP-1770) USS Healy (DD-672) USS Heath Hen (AMc-6) USS Heather (1903, WAGL-331/WLB-331) USS Hebe (SP-966) USS Hecate (1869) USS Hecla (1846...
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    Partly as a result, Parry was given command of a new expedition in HMS Hecla, accompanied by the slower HMS Griper under Matthew Liddon. Others on the...
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    The second USS Ohio was a ship of the line of the United States Navy, rated at 74 guns, although her total number of guns was 104. She was designed by...
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    from 1845 to 1846. After the outbreak of the Mexican War, Clitz transferred to the bomb brig USS Hecla in 1847, a ship purchased in 1846 and commissioned...
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  • HMS Beacon (1832), a Hecla-class bomb vessel launched in 1823 as HMS Meteor. She became a survey ship in 1832 and was renamed HMS Beacon. She was sold in 1846. HMS Beacon (1855)...
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    HMS Erebus was a Hecla-class bomb vessel constructed by the Royal Navy in Pembroke dockyard, Wales, in 1826. The vessel was the second in the Royal Navy...
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    the rank of captain on 19 July 1821, retiring in that rank on 1 October 1846, later promoted to Retired Rear Admiral on 8 March 1852. He moved to Australia...
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    to Committee Bay and went up the east coast hoping to reach the Fury and Hecla Strait, which William Edward Parry's men had seen in 1822. The weather was...
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    Hall: His voyage to Repulse Bay, Sledge Journeys to the Straits of Fury and Hecla and to King William's Land. Washington: U.S. Naval Observatory. p. 33. Retrieved...
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    The first USS Advance was a brigantine in the United States Navy which participated in an Arctic rescue expedition. Advance was built in 1847 as Augusta...
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    ordered. USS Mohican and Narragansett were examples of these seven. CSS Alabama USS Alaska USS Contoocook HMS Gannet, now a museum ship. USS Housatonic...
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    through the Fury and Hecla Strait, north to Lancaster Sound through the Gulf of Boothia and Prince Regent Inlet. The Fury and Hecla Strait is usually closed...
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    many searches. At one point, ten British and two American ships, USS Advance and USS Rescue, headed for the Arctic. Eventually, more ships and men were...
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    new species). Captains: Charles Wilkes (1798–1877) (USS Vincennes) and William Levereth Hudson (USS Peacock) (1794–1862) Doctor-tries: J.L. Fox Naturalists:...
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    (Greenlandic Inuit) of Cape York 1819: Royal Navy expedition aboard HMS Hecla and HMS Griper led by William Edward Parry in search of the Northwest Passage...
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    as British consul at Stockholm in 1839, and remained at this post until 1846. In 1850, at the age of 72, Ross undertook a third voyage to the Arctic regions...
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    (1838–1842). During the American Civil War between 1861 and 1865, he commanded USS San Jacinto during the Trent Affair in which he stopped a Royal Mail ship...
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    Otto von Kotzebue (category 1846 deaths)
    Otto von Kotzebue (30 December 1787 - 15 February 1846) was a Baltic German naval officer in the Imperial Russian Navy. He commanded two naval expeditions...
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    Cook HMS Discovery Clerke Mackenzie Kotzebue J. Ross HMS Griper Parry HMS Hecla Lyon HMS Fury Hoppner Crozier J. C. Ross Coppermine expedition Franklin...
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    domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. USS Porpoise Journal, 19 February 1845–16 June 1846 (#1163), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J....
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    Hon. Caroline Elisabeth née Forbes (born 1799) and George Fairholme (1789–1846), a land owner, banker, traveller, naturalist and scriptural geologist. His...
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    USS Vincennes was a 703-ton Boston-class sloop of war in the United States Navy from 1826 to 1865. During her service, Vincennes patrolled the Pacific...
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    narrative. In the following year he accompanied Lieutenant W. E. Parry in HMS Hecla, sailing as far north as Melville Island. In 1821, as an officer on HMS...
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    Peel Sound through the summer of 1846, Terror and Erebus became trapped in ice off King William Island in September 1846 and are thought never to have sailed...
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  • Liddon, while Parry commanded HMS Hecla. Parry's Second Arctic Expedition, 1821–1823, lieutenant, on board the Hecla, under Commander George Francis Lyon...
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    Robert Mallory Berry (category 1846 births)
    Robert Mallory Berry (28 Jan 1846 – 19 May 1929) was an American naval officer and Arctic explorer. Berry began his naval career attending the United States...
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    will unlock the mystery of species". Title page of Flora Antarctica, 1844–1846 Fagus betuloides (Flora Antarctica, Plate CXXIV) The red alga Nitophyllum...
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