George W. Melville
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George Wallace Melville was a United States Navy officer, engineer and Arctic explorer.
Melville in 1904
Sinking of the Jeannette
Melville between 1890 and 1910
Melville's mausoleum in Laurel Hill Cemetery
USS Jeannette (1878)
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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 almos
George W. Melville
…Arctic. In the summer of 1879, he volunteered for the Jeanette expedition under Lieutenant Commander George W. De Long and left San Francisco aboard USS Jeannette on August 7, 1879, to try to find a way to the North Pole via the Bering Strait. Jeannette became icebound in the Chukchi Sea off of Herald Island…
Jeannette at Le Havre in 1878
The Pandora blocked by ice around Peel Sound, 1 September, 1875
Abandoning Jeannette