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Photo # NH 92100: Engraved portrait of Lieutenant Charles W. Chipp, USN

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Lieutenant Charles W. Chipp, USN (184?-1881)

Charles Winans Chipp was born in New York during the mid-1840s. Appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy from that state in 1863, he graduated in June 1868 and received his commission in the rank of Ensign in April 1869. During the later 1860s Chipp was an officer in the steam frigate Franklin, flagship of the European Squadron. A tour in the Asiatic Fleet with the steam sloop Alaska followed in the early 1870s, during which time he was promoted to Master. He attained the rank of Lieutenant late in 1872, with assignment to the steam sloop Juniata beginning in that year and lasting until early 1876. A second assignment to the Far East, with service in the gunboat Ashuelot, occupied him into 1879.

Soon afterwards Lieutenant Chipp became executive officer of the Arctic exploration steamer Jeannette, which began an an expedition to penetrate the icepack north of Siberia in July 1879. After the ship was crushed by the ice and sank in June 1881, he helped lead her crew in their long trek over the rugged ice and commanded the ship's second cutter once open water was reached in September. On 12 September 1881, while Jeannette's three boats were sailing across the frigid Arctic seas toward the Siberian mainland, they were separated in a storm. Lieutenant Charles W. Chipp and the seven men with him were not seen again, and no trace of their fate was ever discovered.

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Photo #: NH 92100

Lieutenant Charles W. Chipp, USN


Vignette engraving, with a facsimile of his signature, copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume I, page 16, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.
Lieutenant Chipp was second-in-command of USS Jeannette during her Arctic expedition, 1879-1881.

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Photo #: NH 52007

USS Jeannette
(1879-1881)

Composite photograph of the ship, and the officers of her Arctic expedition. Those shown are (clockwise from top center):
Lieutenant Commander George W. DeLong, USN, Commanding Officer;
Passed Assistant Surgeon James M. Ambler, USN;
Chief Engineer George W. Melville, USN;
Raymond Lee Newcomb, Naturalist and Astronomer;
William Dunbar, Pilot;
Jerome J. Collins, Correspondent for the "New York Herald";
Lieutenant John W. Danenhower, USN, Second Officer; and
Lieutenant Charles W. Chipp, USN, Executive Officer.

Donation of Captain T.S. Wilkinson, USN, 1934.

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Photo #: NH 92131

Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881


Plan of the camp set up on the ice after USS Jeannette sank, circa 13 June 1881.
Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume II, page 582, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.

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Photo #: NH 92137

Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881


Sketch of USS Jeannette boats, which the ship's crew dragged over the ice after she sank north of Siberia in June 1881, and floated where open water was encountered. The three boats were commanded by Lieutenant Commander George DeLong, Lieutenant Charles W. Chipp and Chief Engineer George W. Melville.
Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume II, page 693, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.

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Photo #: NH 92141

Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881


Woodcut engraved by George T. Andrew after a design by M.J. Burns, depicting USS Jeannette's boats separating in a gale northeast of the Lena River Delta, Siberia, on 12 September 1881. The boat commanded by Lieutenant Commander George DeLong (depicted in the foreground) landed at the northern end of the Delta. That commanded by Chief Engineer George W. Melville (background, right) landed on the Delta's eastern side. The boat commanded by Lieutenant Charles W. Chipp (background, left) was not heard of again.
Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume II, page 751, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.

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