A Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole
Having joined the Royal Navy at the age of ten, Frederick William Beechey (1796–1856) had risen to the rank of lieutenant when he served under John Franklin on the 1818 British expedition to the Arctic in search of a possible route from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Two ships, the Dorothea and the Tr...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/cbo9781107476967 2024-06-09T07:43:42+00:00 A Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole Performed in His Majesty's Ships Dorothea and Trent, under the Command of Captain David Buchan, R.N. 1818 Beechey, Frederick William 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781107476967 unknown Cambridge University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms ISBN 9781108074988 9781107476967 monograph 2014 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781107476967 2024-05-15T13:13:13Z Having joined the Royal Navy at the age of ten, Frederick William Beechey (1796–1856) had risen to the rank of lieutenant when he served under John Franklin on the 1818 British expedition to the Arctic in search of a possible route from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Two ships, the Dorothea and the Trent, were sent to find a route via the seas around Spitsbergen. A little north of 80° their progress was halted by ice. Sailing west to Greenland, the Dorothea was seriously damaged and the expedition aborted. Beechey's account remains the principal source for this voyage as neither Franklin nor the overall commander David Buchan published their journals. Beechey's Arctic service equipped him to later command the Blossom in northern waters: his two-volume Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait (1831) is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. Book Arctic Greenland North Pole Spitsbergen Cambridge University Press Arctic Buchan ENVELOPE(-44.700,-44.700,-60.766,-60.766) Greenland North Pole Pacific Cambridge |
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Having joined the Royal Navy at the age of ten, Frederick William Beechey (1796–1856) had risen to the rank of lieutenant when he served under John Franklin on the 1818 British expedition to the Arctic in search of a possible route from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Two ships, the Dorothea and the Trent, were sent to find a route via the seas around Spitsbergen. A little north of 80° their progress was halted by ice. Sailing west to Greenland, the Dorothea was seriously damaged and the expedition aborted. Beechey's account remains the principal source for this voyage as neither Franklin nor the overall commander David Buchan published their journals. Beechey's Arctic service equipped him to later command the Blossom in northern waters: his two-volume Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait (1831) is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. |
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A Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole |
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A Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole |
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A Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole |
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ENVELOPE(-44.700,-44.700,-60.766,-60.766) |
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Arctic Buchan Greenland North Pole Pacific |
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Arctic Greenland North Pole Spitsbergen |
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Arctic Greenland North Pole Spitsbergen |
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