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Photo # NH 92109: Engraved portrait of Jerome J. Collins

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Jerome J. Collins (1841-1881)

Jerome J. Collins was born in County Cork, Ireland, on 17 October 1841. A journalist with James Gordon Bennett's New York "Herald" newspaper, 1879 he was assigned to the Jeannette expedition as correspondent and meteorolgist, spending the next two years in the Arctic north of Siberia. A member of expedition commander George W. DeLong's boat party that landed on the northern end of the Lena River Delta in September 1881, Collins shared the grim fate of all but two of his companions, dying of exposure and starvation at the end of October.

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Photo #: NH 92109

Jerome J. Collins


Vignette engraving copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume I, page 66, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.
Mr. Collins, a correspondent for the "New York Herald" newspaper, was a member USS Jeannette's 1879-1881 Arctic exploring expedition, serving as meteorologist.

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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 92144

Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881


Facsimile of the next-to-last page of Lieutenant Commander George DeLong's journal, covering 21-24 October 1881, as his party was dying of starvation at the head of the Lena River Delta, Siberia. Numbered days reflect the time since USS Jeannette was abandoned in the ice north of Siberia.
Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume II, page 798, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.

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Photo #: NH 92145

Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881


Facsimile of the last page of Lieutenant Commander George DeLong's journal, covering 25-30 October 1881, as his party was dying of starvation at the head of the Lena River Delta, Siberia. Numbered days reflect the time since USS Jeannette was abandoned in the ice north of Siberia.
Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume II, page 799, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.

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Photo #: NH 92152

"Plan of the Last Camp, Showing the Position in which the Bodies were Found."


Plan of the final camp of Lieutenant Commander George DeLong and his men from the Arctic exploration ship Jeannette, in the Lena River Delta, Siberia. All members of the party perished there in October-November 1881. Their bodies were found the following March.
Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume II, page 854, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.

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Page made 14 December 2003
Text corrected 25 November 2004