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Picture No 10217632
Date 1875
Description HMS 'Alert' towing HMS 'Discovery' through Icebergs, British
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Engraving showing HMS 'Alert' towing HMS 'Discovery' through icebergs, with Disco Island in the background, as seen from HMS 'Valorous' (left foreground) during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876. In the summer of 1875 the British Admiralty sent Captain George Nares with two ships, HMS 'Alert' and HMS 'Discovery', to make an attempt to reach the North Pole via Smith Sound. Although the attempt was unsuccessful, a new 'furthest North' record was set, the coasts of Greenland and Ellesmere Island were charted and much scientific data gathered.
Source Illustrated London News. 1875. page 268.
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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