Steam barque or bark, ex-British Philomel-class wooden gunvessel Pandora, built by Pembroke Dockyard, laid down 30 March 1860, launched 7 February 1861, commissioned September 1861. 570 long tons, 145 feet long by 24 feet, 4 inch beam by 13 feet draft, 8 to 11 knots, originally 60 crew. Sold in 1875 to Sir Allan Young for Arctic exploration, then in 1878 to James G. Bennett of the New York Herald and renamed Jeannette. Bennett obtained U.S. government help to fit her out for a polar expedition. Jeannette sailed with 30 officers and men (28 in some sources) and 3 civilians as a privately-owned ship under U.S. Navy orders.
Scanned manuscript copy of the Jeannette ship's journal. Provided by the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Scanned images available via NOAA PMEL.
The published journal of Lieutenant Commander George W. DeLong, as edited and published in 1884 by Emma Wotton DeLong. Provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Digitized copy available at BHL.
Data for the voyage of the USS Jeannette is made available courtesy of Old Weather, a Zooniverse project, on GitHub.
Metadata for the four volumes of the Jeannette logs is made available here in an XML package: jeannette_metadata.xml.
Full documentation of sources, along with technical notes and suggested citations, is available for each logbook volume:
USS Jeannette logbook transcriptions and data courtesy of Old Weather and Philip Brohan. Ship biography, summary of service, and other information courtesy of Naval-history.net.
Banner image: Tyler, James Gale, Abandoning the Arctic Exploration Ship Jeannette (1883).
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