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Title

By the commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, &c. ...To Horatio T. Austin, Esq., C.B., captain of Her Majesty's Ship "Resolute," in charge of an expedition to the Arctic Sea

Identifier(s)

text:835; APSimg6716; Goodman Number: 317

Description

Copy of Austin's military orders to search the Arctic Sea for the missing ships, Erebus and Terror, under the command of Sir John Franklin (see also Goodman #314). Signed in type by F. T. Baring, M. F. F. Berkeley, and J. Parker. ; Located in Box #5.

Creator

Great Britain. Admiralty

Source

Elisha Kent Kane Papers. Printed Material. (Mss.B.K132.p); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.K132.p-ead.xml

Subject

Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857; Arctic regions; Discovery & exploration; Grinnell Expedition

Date

1850