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Photo # NH 52000:  Sinking of the Jeannette

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- EVENTS -- The 1880s --

Jeannette Arctic Expedition, 1879-1881 --
Sinking of the Jeannette, 12-13 June 1881


This page features all the views we have related to the sinking of the Jeannette, after her hull was broken open by the pressure of Arctic ice flows.

For a textual overview and selected images concerning the entire Jeannette Expedition, and links to comprehensive coverage of our pictorial holdings on its other aspects, see:

  • Jeannette Arctic Expedition, 1879-1881.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 92130

    Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881


    Sketch plan of the position of USS Jeannette in the ice flows north of Siberia, just before the ice closed in to crush and sink her, 12 June 1881.
    Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume II, page 573, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 104KB; 660 x 675 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 52000

    Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881


    "The Sinking of the Jeannette"
    Engraving by George T. Andrew after a design by M.J. Burns, copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume II, page 575, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884. It depicts USS Jeannette after she was crushed by ice flows north of Siberia on 12 June 1881. She sank in the morning of 13 June in position 77 14'57" N, 154 58'45"E.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 148KB; 740 x 460 pixels

     

    For a textual overview and selected images concerning the entire Jeannette Expedition, and links to comprehensive coverage of our pictorial holdings on its other aspects, see:

  • Jeannette Arctic Expedition, 1879-1881.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.


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