The ‘Old Arctics’: notices of Franklin Search expedition veterans in the British press, 1876–1934

ABSTRACT The lives of the commanders and officers associated with the British naval searches for the lost John Franklin northwest passage expedition in the 1850s are well-known through their own writings or those of later biographers. The post-Arctic careers of ordinary crew members, on the other ha...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Polar Record
Main Authors: McCorristine, Shane, Herrmann, Victoria
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2015
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
Arctic
Northwest Passage
Northwest passage
Polar Record
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247415000728
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247415000728
id crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247415000728
record_format openpolar
spelling crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247415000728 2024-03-03T08:41:49+00:00 The ‘Old Arctics’: notices of Franklin Search expedition veterans in the British press, 1876–1934 McCorristine, Shane Herrmann, Victoria 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247415000728 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247415000728 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 52, issue 2, page 215-229 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ecology Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 2015 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247415000728 2024-02-08T08:25:52Z ABSTRACT The lives of the commanders and officers associated with the British naval searches for the lost John Franklin northwest passage expedition in the 1850s are well-known through their own writings or those of later biographers. The post-Arctic careers of ordinary crew members, on the other hand, are barely known at all. Following digital searches of nineteenth and early-twentieth century British newspapers, we have compiled a list of some notices, obituaries, and reminiscences that shed light on the later years of the ‘Old Arctics’. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Northwest passage Polar Record Cambridge University Press Arctic Northwest Passage Polar Record 52 2 215 229
institution Open Polar
collection Cambridge University Press
op_collection_id crcambridgeupr
language English
topic General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
spellingShingle General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
McCorristine, Shane
Herrmann, Victoria
The ‘Old Arctics’: notices of Franklin Search expedition veterans in the British press, 1876–1934
topic_facet General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
description ABSTRACT The lives of the commanders and officers associated with the British naval searches for the lost John Franklin northwest passage expedition in the 1850s are well-known through their own writings or those of later biographers. The post-Arctic careers of ordinary crew members, on the other hand, are barely known at all. Following digital searches of nineteenth and early-twentieth century British newspapers, we have compiled a list of some notices, obituaries, and reminiscences that shed light on the later years of the ‘Old Arctics’.
format Article in Journal/Newspaper
author McCorristine, Shane
Herrmann, Victoria
author_facet McCorristine, Shane
Herrmann, Victoria
author_sort McCorristine, Shane
title The ‘Old Arctics’: notices of Franklin Search expedition veterans in the British press, 1876–1934
title_short The ‘Old Arctics’: notices of Franklin Search expedition veterans in the British press, 1876–1934
title_full The ‘Old Arctics’: notices of Franklin Search expedition veterans in the British press, 1876–1934
title_fullStr The ‘Old Arctics’: notices of Franklin Search expedition veterans in the British press, 1876–1934
title_full_unstemmed The ‘Old Arctics’: notices of Franklin Search expedition veterans in the British press, 1876–1934
title_sort ‘old arctics’: notices of franklin search expedition veterans in the british press, 1876–1934
publisher Cambridge University Press (CUP)
publishDate 2015
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247415000728
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247415000728
geographic Arctic
Northwest Passage
geographic_facet Arctic
Northwest Passage
genre Arctic
Northwest passage
Polar Record
genre_facet Arctic
Northwest passage
Polar Record
op_source Polar Record
volume 52, issue 2, page 215-229
ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057
op_rights https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms
op_doi https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247415000728
container_title Polar Record
container_volume 52
container_issue 2
container_start_page 215
op_container_end_page 229
_version_ 1792497403716173824

Similar Items