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List Of Arctic Exploration Vessels
This is a list of Arctic exploration vessels: *USS Advance (1850) *Airship Italia *Akademik Fyodorov *Akademik Tryoshnikov *HMS Alert (1856) *America (airship) *Antarctic Snow Cruiser *HMS Assistance (1850) *USS Bear (1874) *HMS Blossom (1806) *Bowdoin (Arctic schooner) *SS Chelyuskin *USRC Thomas Corwin (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 (1813) *USCGC Healy (WAGB-20) *HMS Hecla (1815) *HMS Investigator (1848) *USS Jeannette (1878) * Icebreaker Joseph Stalin *Karluk (ship) *King & Winge (fishing schooner) * MIR (submersible) *USS Nautilus (SSN-571) *Norge (airship) *Steamer Pravda *HMS Resolute (1850) *USS Rodgers (1879) * USS Sargo (SSN-583) *USS Seadragon (SSN-584) *Icebreaker Sedov *Sibiryakov (1909 icebreaker) *USS Skate (SSN-578) *HMS Terror (1813) *Steamer Tovarishch Stalin *USS Rescue (1850) *Steamer Volodarskiy *USS Whale (SSN-638) {{DEFAUL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arctic
The Arctic ( or ) is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean, adjacent seas, and parts of Canada ( Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), Danish Realm ( Greenland), Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia ( Murmansk, Siberia, Nenets Okrug, Novaya Zemlya), Sweden and the United States ( Alaska). Land within the Arctic region has seasonally varying snow and ice cover, with predominantly treeless permafrost (permanently frozen underground ice) containing tundra. Arctic seas contain seasonal sea ice in many places. The Arctic region is a unique area among Earth's ecosystems. The cultures in the region and the Arctic indigenous peoples have adapted to its cold and extreme conditions. Life in the Arctic includes zooplankton and phytoplankton, fish and marine mammals, birds, land animals, plants and human societies. Arctic land is bordered by the subarctic. Definition and etymology The word Arctic comes from the Greek w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Erebus (1826)
HMS ''Erebus'' was a constructed by the Royal Navy in Pembroke dockyard, Wales, in 1826. The vessel was the second in the Royal Navy named after Erebus, the personification of darkness in Greek mythology. The 372-ton ship was armed with two mortars – one and one – and 10 guns. The ship took part in the Ross expedition of 1839–1843, and was abandoned in 1848 during the third Franklin expedition. The sunken wreck was discovered by the Canadian Victoria Strait expedition in September 2014. Ross expedition After two years' service in the Mediterranean Sea, ''Erebus'' was refitted as an exploration vessel for Antarctic service, and on 21 November 1840 – captained by James Clark Ross – she departed from Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) for Antarctica in company with HMS ''Terror''. In January 1841, the crews of both ships landed on Victoria Land, and proceeded to name areas of the landscape after British politicians, scientists, and acquaintances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King & Winge (fishing Schooner)
'' King & Winge'' was one of the most famous ships ever built in Seattle, Washington, United States. Built in 1914, in the next 80 years she had participated in a famous Arctic rescue, been present at a great maritime tragedy, and been employed as a halibut schooner, a rum runner, a pilot boat, a yacht, and a crabber. She sank in high seas, without loss of life, in 1994. Construction ''King & Winge'' was originally a powered halibut schooner built by the King and Winge shipyard in West Seattle in 1914. She was designed by Albert M. Winge, co-owner of the shipyard.Jacobi, Wayne, "King & Winge: Versatile Ship Comes Home," Seattle Times, January 5, 1962, page 33. Her dimensions were 143 tons, 97' length on the deck (110' overall), 19.6' beam and 9.7 depth of hold. As built she was fitted with a Corliss gasoline engine and an electric lighting system. She had two 60' high masts, and carried nine halibut dories. The construction was very strong, with 4x4 ½ inch oak frames, eac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karluk (ship)
''Karluk'' was an American-built brigantine which, after many years' service as a whaler, was acquired by the Canadian government in 1913 to act as flagship to the Canadian Arctic Expedition. While on her way to the expedition's rendezvous at Herschel Island, ''Karluk'' became trapped in the Arctic pack ice and, after drifting for several months, was crushed and sank in January 1914. Of the 25 aboard (crew and expedition staff), eleven died, either during the attempts to reach land by marching over the ice, or after arrival at the temporary refuge of Wrangel Island. Ship history ''Karluk'' was built in 1884, at Matthew Turner's shipyard, Benicia, California, as a tender for the Alaska salmon fishery industry (''karluk'' is the Alutiiq word for "fish"). She was in length with a beam of , and 321 gross register tonnage, 247 net register tonnage powered by sail and a 150 hp auxiliary coal-fired compound steam engine. In 1892 ''Karluk'' was converted for use as a whaler, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibir (1937 Icebreaker)
The ''Sibir'' (from 1938 to 1956, the ''Iosef Stalin'') was the first Soviet icebreaker built at a domestic shipyard. Owing to many delays, it took over two years to finish. It was built at the Ordzhonikidze Yard in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) between 1937 and 1938. The ''I. Stalin'' was the biggest icebreaker of the Soviet fleet at that time. In 1938 it reached the Arctic in its first expedition. The ''I. Stalin'' freed the icebreaker ''Sedov'' on January 18, 1940 between Greenland and Svalbard after it had been drifting as a scientific Soviet polar station for a long time. As part of the de-Stalinization of the USSR, the ship was renamed ''Sibir'' in 1956. See also * Konstantin Badygin Captain Konstantin Sergeyevich Badygin (or Badigin, russian: Константин Сергеевич Бадигин; 30 November 1910 – 15 March 1984) was a Soviet naval officer, explorer, author, and scientist. Biography Konstantin Sergeye ... References ;Notes ;Bibliography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Jeannette (1878)
USS ''Jeannette'' was a naval exploration vessel which, commanded by George W. De Long, undertook the ''Jeannette'' expedition of 1879–1881 to the Arctic. After being trapped in the ice and drifting for almost two years, the ship and her crew of 33 were released from the ice, then trapped again, crushed and sunk some north of the Siberian coast. The entire crew survived the sinking, but eight died while sailing towards land in a small cutter. The others reached Siberia, but 12 subsequently perished in the Lena Delta, including De Long. The vessel had begun her active career in 1861 as HMS ''Pandora'', a Royal Navy gunboat. After more than a decade's service off the West African coast and in the Mediterranean, ''Pandora'' was retired from duty and sold as a private yacht to a British explorer, Allen Young. Young took her on two voyages to the Arctic, in 1875 and 1876, before selling her to James Gordon Bennett Jr., proprietor of ''The New York Herald'', who changed her na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Investigator (1848)
HMS ''Investigator'' was a merchant ship purchased in 1848 to search for Sir John Franklin's ill-fated Northwest Passage expedition. She made two voyages to the Arctic and had to be abandoned in 1853, after becoming trapped in the pack ice. Her wreckage was found in July 2010, off Banks Island in the Beaufort Sea. She was the fourth ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. Characteristics Built at Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Greenock on the Firth of Clyde, and running 422 tonnes, ''Investigator'' was purchased by the Admiralty in February 1848 and was fitted for Arctic exploration by R. & H. Green at Blackwall Yard on the River Thames. She was strengthened for Arctic service by William M. Rice, master shipwright of Woolwich Dockyard. She was extensively strengthened with timber—teak, English oak, Canadian elm—and steel plating. Ten pairs of wrought iron diagonal riders were set in the hold, with ten pairs of diagonal plates on the sides of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Hecla (1815)
HMS ''Hecla'' was a Royal Navy launched in 1815. Like many other bomb vessels, she was named for a volcano, in this case Hekla in southern Iceland. She served at the Bombardment of Algiers in 1816. Subsequently, she took part in three expeditions to the Arctic. She then served as a survey vessel on the coast of West Africa until she was sold in 1831. She became a merchantman and in 1834 a Greenland whaler. She was wrecked in 1840. Ship history Commander William Popham commissioned ''Hecla'' for service in the Mediterranean. ''Hecla'' saw wartime service as part of the Anglo-Dutch fleet at the bombardment of Algiers on 27 August 1816. In 1847 the Admiralty authorised the award of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Algiers" to all surviving claimants from the battle. Arctic exploration In early 1819 she was converted to an Arctic exploration ship and made three journeys to the Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage, and made one attempt on the North Pole, all un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USCGC Healy (WAGB-20)
''USCGC ''Healy'' (WAGB-20)'' is the United States' largest and most technologically advanced icebreaker as well as the US Coast Guard's largest vessel. She is classified as a medium icebreaker by the Coast Guard. She is homeported in Seattle, Washington, and was commissioned in 1999. On 6 September 2001 ''Healy'' visited the North Pole for the first time. The second visit occurred on 12 September 2005. On 5 September 2015, ''Healy'' became the first unaccompanied United States surface vessel to reach the North Pole, and ''Healy's'' fourth Pole visit (and her second unaccompanied visit) happened on 30 September 2022. Construction ''Healy'' was built by Avondale Industries in New Orleans, Louisiana. The construction included a technology transfer agreement between Avondale Industries and the Finnish Kværner Masa-Yards Arctic Technology Centre, where the latter provided expertise for hull form development and propulsion line engineering based on the Finnish diesel-electric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Griper (1813)
HMS ''Griper'' was a of the British Royal Navy, built in 1813 by Mark Williams and John Davidson at Hythe.The ''Bold'' class were a revival of Sir William Rule's design of 1804. She participated in the 1819 expedition to the Arctic led by William Parry, made a voyage to Greenland and Norway in 1823, and took part in Parry's third expedition in 1824 as a support ship. Her crew in 1819, 1823, or 1824, qualified for the " Arctic Medal", which the Admiralty issued in 1857. She was eventually broken up in 1868. Early career ''Griper'' was commissioned in July 1813 under Commander Charles Mitchell. In February 1814 Commander Arthur M'Meekan replaced Mitchell. In 1817, ''Griper'' was at Chatham. She then underwent fitting as an exploration ship at Portsmouth between December 1818 and May 1819. Expedition to Northwest Passage (1819) Lieutenant Matthew Liddon recommissioned ''Griper'' in January 1819. She then sailed with William Edward Parry from London on 11 May 1819.''The Times ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Icebreaker Fyodor Litke
The icebreaker ''Fyodor Litke'' (SKR-18, russian: Фёдор Литке, СКР-18) was active in the Soviet era in the Arctic, until the late 1950s. It was built in 1909 in England for the Saint Lawrence River service and initially named CGC ''Earl Grey'' after Albert Grey, Governor General of Canada.Fraser, p.3 After four years in Canada it was sold to the Russian government and eventually renamed ''Fyodor Litke'' in honour of the Arctic explorer Fyodor Petrovich Litke. ''Litke''Name of the ship was usually reduced to ''Litke'', omitting ''Fyodor''. became famous for its Arctic operations in 1932–1935, survived World War II and was retired in 1958 after nearly 50 years of service. Unlike conventional icebreakers that crush ice with their own weight from above, ''Litke'' belonged to an older generation of vessels, relying on ramming and cutting ice without any downward movement. For this reason, ''Litke'' was uniquely classified as an ''ice-cutter'' (russian: ледорез) o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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