Crew member of the USS Jeannette which was crushed by ice and sank June 6, 1881 in the Arctic Sea north of Siberia while undertaking an expedition to find the "Polar Sea". The cruise had originated at San Francisco, CA on July 8, 1879.
Eventually the crew found open sea and Sweetman and seven other crew members set sail for the northern Siberian coast, all in one of three small boats, his skippered by the Jeannette's Executive Officer, Lieutenant Charles W Chipp. This boat was last seen September 12, 1881 when the three boats were separated by a fierce storm. All in Chipp's boat were presumed lost at sea, no trace of boat or crew were ever found.
The known gravesites of the crew of the USS Jeannette;
George Washington De Long
Charles Winans Chipp
George Wallace Melville
Lieut. John Wilson Danenhower
James Markham Marshall Ambler
Jerome J. Collins
William Dunbar
William F. C. Nindemann
Louis P. Noros
Walter Lee
Hans H. Erichson
Carl A. Gortz
Neils Iverson
Heinrick H. Kaack
Herbert W. Leach
Raymond Lee Newcomb
Adolph Dressler
Walter Sharvell
Edward Starr
Peter E. Johnson
Albert Kuehne
James H. Bartlett
Henry D. Warren
Frank E Manson
John Cole
For further details, see:
'In the Lena Delta'
by George W Melville (1892)
'Hell on Ice; The Saga of Jeannette'
by Edward Ellsberg (1938)
'In the Kingdom of Ice'
by Hampton Sides (2014)
Eventually the crew found open sea and Sweetman and seven other crew members set sail for the northern Siberian coast, all in one of three small boats, his skippered by the Jeannette's Executive Officer, Lieutenant Charles W Chipp. This boat was last seen September 12, 1881 when the three boats were separated by a fierce storm. All in Chipp's boat were presumed lost at sea, no trace of boat or crew were ever found.
The known gravesites of the crew of the USS Jeannette;
George Washington De Long
Charles Winans Chipp
George Wallace Melville
Lieut. John Wilson Danenhower
James Markham Marshall Ambler
Jerome J. Collins
William Dunbar
William F. C. Nindemann
Louis P. Noros
Walter Lee
Hans H. Erichson
Carl A. Gortz
Neils Iverson
Heinrick H. Kaack
Herbert W. Leach
Raymond Lee Newcomb
Adolph Dressler
Walter Sharvell
Edward Starr
Peter E. Johnson
Albert Kuehne
James H. Bartlett
Henry D. Warren
Frank E Manson
John Cole
For further details, see:
'In the Lena Delta'
by George W Melville (1892)
'Hell on Ice; The Saga of Jeannette'
by Edward Ellsberg (1938)
'In the Kingdom of Ice'
by Hampton Sides (2014)
Crew member of the USS Jeannette which was crushed by ice and sank June 6, 1881 in the Arctic Sea north of Siberia while undertaking an expedition to find the "Polar Sea". The cruise had originated at San Francisco, CA on July 8, 1879.
Eventually the crew found open sea and Sweetman and seven other crew members set sail for the northern Siberian coast, all in one of three small boats, his skippered by the Jeannette's Executive Officer, Lieutenant Charles W Chipp. This boat was last seen September 12, 1881 when the three boats were separated by a fierce storm. All in Chipp's boat were presumed lost at sea, no trace of boat or crew were ever found.
The known gravesites of the crew of the USS Jeannette;
George Washington De Long
Charles Winans Chipp
George Wallace Melville
Lieut. John Wilson Danenhower
James Markham Marshall Ambler
Jerome J. Collins
William Dunbar
William F. C. Nindemann
Louis P. Noros
Walter Lee
Hans H. Erichson
Carl A. Gortz
Neils Iverson
Heinrick H. Kaack
Herbert W. Leach
Raymond Lee Newcomb
Adolph Dressler
Walter Sharvell
Edward Starr
Peter E. Johnson
Albert Kuehne
James H. Bartlett
Henry D. Warren
Frank E Manson
John Cole
For further details, see:
'In the Lena Delta'
by George W Melville (1892)
'Hell on Ice; The Saga of Jeannette'
by Edward Ellsberg (1938)
'In the Kingdom of Ice'
by Hampton Sides (2014)
Eventually the crew found open sea and Sweetman and seven other crew members set sail for the northern Siberian coast, all in one of three small boats, his skippered by the Jeannette's Executive Officer, Lieutenant Charles W Chipp. This boat was last seen September 12, 1881 when the three boats were separated by a fierce storm. All in Chipp's boat were presumed lost at sea, no trace of boat or crew were ever found.
The known gravesites of the crew of the USS Jeannette;
George Washington De Long
Charles Winans Chipp
George Wallace Melville
Lieut. John Wilson Danenhower
James Markham Marshall Ambler
Jerome J. Collins
William Dunbar
William F. C. Nindemann
Louis P. Noros
Walter Lee
Hans H. Erichson
Carl A. Gortz
Neils Iverson
Heinrick H. Kaack
Herbert W. Leach
Raymond Lee Newcomb
Adolph Dressler
Walter Sharvell
Edward Starr
Peter E. Johnson
Albert Kuehne
James H. Bartlett
Henry D. Warren
Frank E Manson
John Cole
For further details, see:
'In the Lena Delta'
by George W Melville (1892)
'Hell on Ice; The Saga of Jeannette'
by Edward Ellsberg (1938)
'In the Kingdom of Ice'
by Hampton Sides (2014)
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