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    HMS Erebus was a Hecla-class bomb vessel constructed by the Royal Navy in Pembroke dockyard, Wales, in 1826. The vessel was the second in the Royal Navy...
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  • of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Erebus after Erebus, the dark region of Hades in Greek Mythology. HMS Erebus (1807) was a rocket vessel launched...
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  • Look up Erebus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Erebus is the Greek god of darkness as well as a region of the Greek underworld. Erebus may also refer...
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  • (1876) HMS Discovery (1874) Effie M. Morrissey HMS Enterprise (1848) HMS Erebus (1826) Fox (ship) Fram (ship) HMS Fury (1814) Icebreaker Fyodor Litke HMS Griper...
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    continent in the ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. Crozier commanded Terror, and was appointed to the rank of captain in 1841. Erebus and Terror returned...
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    of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site of Canada. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 29 October 2013. Wrecks of HMS Erebus and...
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    of the Erebus including Fairholme and Captain Francis Crozier of the Terror from photographer Richard Beard. These were taken on board the Erebus at the...
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    Cancelled on 11 July 1833 HMS Erebus Builder: Pembroke Dockyard Ordered: 9 January 1823 Laid down: October 1824 Launched: 7 June 1826 Completed: February 1828...
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    the Voyage of HM Ships Erebus and Terror (1844–1875). J.D. Hooker, The botany of the Antarctic voyage of HM discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the years...
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  • and clothing which would be transferred to the expedition ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror once they had arrived in the arctic. This allowed a larger...
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    cyanobrancha Illustration of a specimen collected during the voyage of HMS Erebus (1826) and HMS Terror Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia...
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  • definitively served was the 6th Rate 28-gun HMS Rattlesnake, which travelled throughout the Caribbean in 1826 and 1827. After leaving Magnificent, Peglar...
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  • HMS Skylark was a 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop built for the Royal Navy during the 1820s. She was wrecked in 1845. Skylark, the second ship of her...
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    HMS Fury was a Hecla-class bomb vessel of the British Royal Navy. The ship was ordered on 5 June 1813 from the yard of Mrs Mary Ross, at Rochester, Kent...
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    parts between 1844 and 1859 by Reeve Brothers in London. Hooker sailed on HMS Erebus as assistant surgeon. The botanical findings of the Ross expedition were...
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    217°W / 74.800; -66.217 in Lancaster Sound, Baffin Bay and there saw HMS Erebus and Terror moored to an iceberg. On 12 June 1849 Prince of Wales sank...
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  • Euryalus, bomb vessels Devastation, Aetna, and Meteor, the rocket ship Erebus, and the dispatch boat Anna-Maria were detached under Captain Gordon of...
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    midshipman on HMS Weazel, which shortly joined in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland. Short periods of service on HMS Clyde and HMS Diligence followed...
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  • class bomb ship HMS Erebus 10 gun Hecla-class bomb vessel launched in 1826 Fury-class sloop (1813) 12-gun sloop equipped as a bomb vessel HMS Waterloo (1813)...
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    result, Parry was given command of a new expedition in HMS Hecla, accompanied by the slower HMS Griper under Matthew Liddon. Others on the expedition were...
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    the Mackenzie River and maps much of the Arctic coast 1826: Frederick William Beechey aboard HMS Blossom explores the Alaskan coast from Point Barrow to...
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    New Caledonia and the Hawaiian Islands, reaching Kronstadt on July 10, 1826. When he returned, Kotzebue was promoted to command of the fleet squadron...
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    During the search for Franklin, Commander Robert McClure and his crew in HMS Investigator traversed the Northwest Passage from west to east in the years...
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    born in Stockport. As a boy, he went to sea as a volunteer in the frigate HMS Arethusa in 1808 and took part in the destruction of batteries on the Spanish...
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    Vincennes was a 703-ton Boston-class sloop of war in the United States Navy from 1826 to 1865. During her service, Vincennes patrolled the Pacific, explored the...
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    arrival of the two ships of James Ross's expedition to Antarctica, HMS Terror and HMS Erebus. On 25 February, the schooners sailed towards the Auckland Islands...
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    command HMS Blossom. His task was to explore the Bering Strait in concert with Franklin and Parry operating from the east. In the summer of 1826, he passed...
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    Joseph René Bellot (category 1826 births)
    Joseph-René Bellot (18 March 1826 – 18 August 1853) was a French naval officer and Arctic explorer. Bellot was born in Paris, the son of a farrier, but...
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  • Arctic Ocean, including Kotelny and Lyakhovsky Islands as an underpilot in 1826. Mills, William James (2003). Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia...
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    captain-commodore [ru], and received the rank of counter admiral from tsar Nicholas I in 1826. He fought in the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829, — particularly in the siege...
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