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Photo # NH 92105: Engraved portrait of Lieutenant John W. Danenhower, USN

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Lieutenant John W. Danenhower, USN (1849-1887)

John Wilson Danenhower was born in Chicago, Illinois, on 30 September 1849. He was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy in 1866 and graduated in June 1870. During th next eight years he served in the steam sloops Plymouth and Juniata in the European Fleet, the sailing sloop Portsmouth on surveying duty in the Pacific, and in the steam sloop Vandalia in north Atlantic and European waters.

He became an officer of the Arctic exploration steamer Jeannette while still in Europe and helped sail her to San Francisco, California, where she was refitted for an expedition to penetrate the icepack north of Siberia. Promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in August 1879, soon after Jeannette sailed for the Arctic, Danenhower was disabled by chronic eye disease late in that year. Though treatment by the expedition's surgeon, James M. Ambler, prevented the total loss of his vision, he was unable to carry out many of his duties during the ship's long stay in the ice and her crew's subsequent journey across the ice after Jeannette sank. When his boat was engulfed in a severe storm in September 1881, Lieutenant Danenhower's seamanship saved the boat and its occupants. After they landed on the Siberian coast, he was placed in charge of some of the expedition survivors when they were sent to the town of Yakutsk.

Lieutenant Danenhower returned to the United States in May 1882, subsequently writing and lecturing on the subject of Arctic exploration. He was assigned to the U.S. Naval Academy in 1884, with his duties there including service in the training ship Constellation. On 20 April 1887, soon after that ship had run aground while in his charge, Lieutenant John W. Danehower died by his own hand.

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Photo #: NH 92105

Lieutenant John W. Danenhower, USN


Vignette engraving, with a facsimile of his signature, copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume I, page 52, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.
Lieutenant Danenhower was Second Officer on USS Jeannette's 1879-1881 Arctic exploring expedition.

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Photo #: NH 51770

Lieutenant John W. Danenhower, USN


Second Officer of the Jeannette Arctic exploration expedition, 1879-1881.
Engraved portrait published during the later 19th Century.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 51769

Lieutenant John W. Danenhower, USN


Second Officer of the 1879-1881 Jeannette Arctic exploration expedition.
Engraved portrait published during the later 1800s.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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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 52005

Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881


Engraving some of the expedition's survivors, probably based on a photograph taken at Yakutsk, Siberia, in 1882. Those present are
(left to right, in front): H.W. Leach, Henry Wilson and William Coles.
(left to right, in back): Tong Sing (cook), Lieutenant John W. Danenhower and Raymond Lee Newcomb (Naturalist).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 52006

Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881


Engraving of the expedition's survivors, based on a photograph taken at Yakutsk, Siberia, in 1882. Those present are
(left to right, in front): Lauderback, Bartlett, William Coles, Seaman William F.C. Nindemann, and Mansen.
(left to right, in middle): Chief Engineer George W. Melville and Lieutenant John W. Danenhower.
(left to right, in back): Raymond Lee Newcomb (naturalist), Seaman Louis P. Noros, Henry Wilson, Tong Sing (cook), Anequin and H.W. Leach.

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