HMS Griper (1813)
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HMS Griper was a Bold-class gun-brig of the British Royal Navy, built in 1813 by Mark Williams and John Davidson at Hythe. She participated in the 1819 expedition to the Arctic led by William Parry, m
The Crews of HMS Hecla & Griper Cutting into Winter Harbour, Sept. 26th, 1819, from the 1821 journal of the Arctic expedition
Situation of HMS Griper, Sept 1, 1824
HMS Hecla (1815)
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HMS Hecla was a Royal Navy Hecla-class bomb vessel 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
HMS Griper (1813)
…Griper in January 1819. She then sailed with William Edward Parry from London on 11 May 1819. Parry commanded two 3-masted sailing ships: the 375 ton HMS Hecla and the 182 ton Griper. Their destination was the Northwest Passage. Griper was by far the inferior of the two ships, being described as "one of these…
Lithograph depicting HMS Hecla and HMS Fury, by Arthur Parsey, 1823
The Bombardment of Algiers by Thomas Luny