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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of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Erebus after Erebus, the dark region of Hades in Greek Mythology. HMS Erebus (1807) was a rocket vessel launched...
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underworld. Erebus may also refer to: HMS Erebus, five ships of Britain's Royal Navy, most famously: HMS Erebus (1826), a part of Franklin's failed expedition...
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(1876) HMS Discovery (1874) Effie M. Morrissey HMS Enterprise (1848) HMS Erebus (1826) Fox (ship) Fram (ship) HMS Fury (1814) Icebreaker Fyodor Litke HMS Griper...
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continent in the ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. Crozier commanded Terror, and was appointed to the rank of captain in 1841. Erebus and Terror returned...
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of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site of Canada. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 29 October 2013. Wrecks of HMS Erebus and...
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of the Erebus including Fairholme and Captain Francis Crozier of the Terror from photographer Richard Beard. These were taken on board the Erebus at the...
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Cancelled on 11 July 1833 HMS Erebus Builder: Pembroke Dockyard Ordered: 9 January 1823 Laid down: October 1824 Launched: 7 June 1826 Completed: February 1828...
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and clothing which would be transferred to the expedition ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror once they had arrived in the arctic. This allowed a larger...
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European and American voyages of scientific exploration (section 1839–43: HMS Erebus and HMS Terror)
the Voyage of HM Ships Erebus and Terror (1844–1875). J.D. Hooker, The botany of the Antarctic voyage of HM discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the years...
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HMS Skylark was a 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop built for the Royal Navy during the 1820s. She was wrecked in 1845. Skylark, the second ship of her...
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cyanobrancha Illustration of a specimen collected during the voyage of HMS Erebus (1826) and HMS Terror Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia...
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Harry Peglar (section HMS Wanderer)
definitively served was the 6th Rate 28-gun HMS Rattlesnake, which travelled throughout the Caribbean in 1826 and 1827. After leaving Magnificent, Peglar...
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Euryalus, bomb vessels Devastation, Aetna, and Meteor, the rocket ship Erebus, and the dispatch boat Anna-Maria were detached under Captain Gordon of...
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class bomb ship HMS Erebus 10 gun Hecla-class bomb vessel launched in 1826 Fury-class sloop (1813) 12-gun sloop equipped as a bomb vessel HMS Waterloo (1813)...
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217°W / 74.800; -66.217 in Lancaster Sound, Baffin Bay and there saw HMS Erebus and Terror moored to an iceberg. On 12 June 1849 Prince of Wales sank...
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the Mackenzie River and maps much of the Arctic coast 1826: Frederick William Beechey aboard HMS Blossom explores the Alaskan coast from Point Barrow to...
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Flora Antarctica (redirect from The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror)
parts between 1844 and 1859 by Reeve Brothers in London. Hooker sailed on HMS Erebus as assistant surgeon. The botanical findings of the Ross expedition were...
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midshipman on HMS Weazel, which shortly joined in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland. Short periods of service on HMS Clyde and HMS Diligence followed...
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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, explored the...
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result, Parry was given command of a new expedition in HMS Hecla, accompanied by the slower HMS Griper under Matthew Liddon. Others on the expedition were...
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HMS Fury was a Hecla-class bomb vessel of the British Royal Navy. The ship was ordered on 5 June 1813 from the yard of Mrs Mary Ross, at Rochester, Kent...
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Joseph René Bellot (category 1826 births)
Joseph-René Bellot (18 March 1826 – 18 August 1853) was a French naval officer and Arctic explorer. Bellot was born in Paris, the son of a farrier, but...
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arrival of the two ships of James Ross's expedition to Antarctica, HMS Terror and HMS Erebus. On 25 February, the schooners sailed towards the Auckland Islands...
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Otto von Kotzebue (section Second voyage, 1823 to 1826)
New Caledonia and the Hawaiian Islands, reaching Kronstadt on July 10, 1826. When he returned, Kotzebue was promoted to command of the fleet squadron...
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Arctic Ocean, including Kotelny and Lyakhovsky Islands as an underpilot in 1826. Mills, William James (2003). Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia...
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During the search for Franklin, Commander Robert McClure and his crew in HMS Investigator traversed the Northwest Passage from west to east in the years...
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command HMS Blossom. His task was to explore the Bering Strait in concert with Franklin and Parry operating from the east. In the summer of 1826, he passed...
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shared the prize money with Persian, Erebus, Woodlark and Plover by agreement. Then on 17 October Persian and Erebus were again in company with Podargus...
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captain-commodore [ru], and received the rank of counter admiral from tsar Nicholas I in 1826. He fought in the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829, — particularly in the siege...
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