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T H E F R A N K L I N E X P E D I T I O N 449
search expeditions under such able and experienced commanders
as Sir James Ross, Sir Edward Belcher, Sir Leopold
McClintock, Admirals Austin, Richards, Kellett, Sherard
Osborne, and Captains Ommaney, Cater, Pullen, Penny and
others. British private generosity sent forth the Felix under
Sir John Ross. A spirit of kindred sympathy impelled American
citizens and their Government to unite in equipping
several auxiliary ships under Captains de Haven and Griffin
and the heroic Dr. Kane and his associate, Dr. Hayes; while
the wifely devotion of Lady Franklin despatched three additional
vessels— the first, Prince Albert, in command of Captain
Forsyth, and later of Captain William Kennedy, afterwards
of St. Andrew's, Manitoba, and his gallant but unfortunate
colleague, Lieutenant Bellot, of the French naval
service.
" Neither was the sea search by way of the Pacific
neglected. In 1848 the ships Herald and Plover left for
Point Barrow, Alaska, via Cape Horn and Behring's Strait.
Two years later they were followed by Captains Collinson
and McClnre, with H . M . ships Enterprise and Investigator.
It is remarkable that, of all the many ship expeditions sent
out, the Enterprise in October, 1852, without knowing it, got
nearest by sea, to the scene of the great disaster, while Collinson
in May, 1853, actually looked across the frozen Victoria
Strait where Franklin's ships were so long beset in the ice,
quite unconscious that King William Land ( Island) held the
unburied skeletons of the men he sought; but the roughness
of the ice and the weakness of his sledging party forbade
crossing.
" It may prove of interest to recount that nothing in the
long tale of Arctic research is finer than the cool way in
which Captain McClure and his gallant band fought their
way in the Investigator around that terrible ice- beset western
coast of Baring Island. There, in Mercy Bay, the winters
of 1851- 2 and 1852- 3 were passed, and there was no hope
of ultimate egress by remaining with the ship. In April
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| OCR | T H E F R A N K L I N E X P E D I T I O N 449 search expeditions under such able and experienced commanders as Sir James Ross, Sir Edward Belcher, Sir Leopold McClintock, Admirals Austin, Richards, Kellett, Sherard Osborne, and Captains Ommaney, Cater, Pullen, Penny and others. British private generosity sent forth the Felix under Sir John Ross. A spirit of kindred sympathy impelled American citizens and their Government to unite in equipping several auxiliary ships under Captains de Haven and Griffin and the heroic Dr. Kane and his associate, Dr. Hayes; while the wifely devotion of Lady Franklin despatched three additional vessels— the first, Prince Albert, in command of Captain Forsyth, and later of Captain William Kennedy, afterwards of St. Andrew's, Manitoba, and his gallant but unfortunate colleague, Lieutenant Bellot, of the French naval service. " Neither was the sea search by way of the Pacific neglected. In 1848 the ships Herald and Plover left for Point Barrow, Alaska, via Cape Horn and Behring's Strait. Two years later they were followed by Captains Collinson and McClnre, with H . M . ships Enterprise and Investigator. It is remarkable that, of all the many ship expeditions sent out, the Enterprise in October, 1852, without knowing it, got nearest by sea, to the scene of the great disaster, while Collinson in May, 1853, actually looked across the frozen Victoria Strait where Franklin's ships were so long beset in the ice, quite unconscious that King William Land ( Island) held the unburied skeletons of the men he sought; but the roughness of the ice and the weakness of his sledging party forbade crossing. " It may prove of interest to recount that nothing in the long tale of Arctic research is finer than the cool way in which Captain McClure and his gallant band fought their way in the Investigator around that terrible ice- beset western coast of Baring Island. There, in Mercy Bay, the winters of 1851- 2 and 1852- 3 were passed, and there was no hope of ultimate egress by remaining with the ship. In April |
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