Description

This volume is a compilation of the testimony and supporting documentation gathered by the Committee on Naval Affairs of the United States House of Representatives in the course of its inquiry into the loss of the USS Jeannette in the Arctic in 1879‒81 and the subsequent fate of the ship’s crew. The Jeannette left San Francisco on July 8, 1879, under the command of Lieutenant George Washington De Long. Its mission was to try to reach the North Pole via an ice-free polar sea that some geographers theorized ...