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Image Title: The Devils Thumb, Ships Boring And Warping In The Pack, 1850

Creator: Haghe, Charles, -1888, lithographer

Date: 1850

Summary: Print shows two ships, probably the Enterprise and the Investigator, ice bound in Baffin Bay off Devil's Point in the Arctic; the crews work to break up the ice and tow the ships to open water.

Notes: Caption continues: Dedicated by special permission to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, by their Lordships most obedient servant, W.H. Browne, Lieut. R.N. (late of the H.M.S. Enterprize).|Illus. in: Ten coloured views taken during the Arctic expedition of Her Majesty's ships "Enterprise" and "Investigator," under the command of Captain Sir James C. Ross ... / Drawn by W.H. Browne ... With a summary of the ... expeditions in search of Captain Sir John Franklin ... London : Ackermann and Co., 1850, [leaf 11 (bottom)].

Related Names: Browne, W. H. (William Henry)

Subjects: Baffin Bay (North Atlantic Ocean)--1840-1850
Expeditions & surveys--Arctic regions--1840-1850
Ice--Baffin Bay (North Atlantic Ocean)--1840-1850
Sailing ships--British--Baffin Bay (North Atlantic Ocean)--1840-1850

Places: Baffin Bay North Atlantic Ocean

Original Media: Lithograph

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