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Frank E Manson

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Frank E Manson

Birth
Sweden
Death
23 Mar 1904 (aged 52)
Manistique, Schoolcraft County, Michigan, USA
Burial
Manistique, Schoolcraft County, Michigan, USA
Plot
Section 12 Lot 18 Plot 04
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A seaman aboard the USS Jeannette that sailed from San Francisco on July 8, 1879 in search of the "Polar Sea". The ship became trapped in the ice and eventually crushed forcing its abandonment on June 6, 1881. The ship's crew set off across the ice fields in search of open water, towing three small boats and as many supplies as possible. In September they finally were able to launch their boats, Manson and ten others in a whaleboat skippered by George W. Melville, the Jeannette's Engineering Officer. The small flotilla soon encountered a violent storm and the boats were separated. Manson's boat eventually landed on the east side of the Lena River Delta and all were rescued by natives of that region. Of the other two boats, one was lost and no sign of it was ever found and the other skippered by George W De Long, the Jeannette's captain landed on the west side of the Lena Delta. Of this last boat, all but two members died of starvation and exposure.

During the last years of his life, he suffered from severe rheumatism and eventual paralysis, all, in most likelihood, from his ordeal in the Arctic.

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
Adolph Dressler
Hans H. Erichson
Carl A. Gortz
Neils Iverson
Heinrick H. Kaack
Herbert W. Leach
Raymond Lee Newcomb
Alfred Sweetman
Walter Sharvell
Edward Starr
Peter E. Johnson
Albert Kuehne
Walter Lee
Henry D. Warren
James H Bartlett
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)

'Evening News'(Sault Ste Marie, MI), Saturday, March 26, 1904, Page 2

A seaman aboard the USS Jeannette that sailed from San Francisco on July 8, 1879 in search of the "Polar Sea". The ship became trapped in the ice and eventually crushed forcing its abandonment on June 6, 1881. The ship's crew set off across the ice fields in search of open water, towing three small boats and as many supplies as possible. In September they finally were able to launch their boats, Manson and ten others in a whaleboat skippered by George W. Melville, the Jeannette's Engineering Officer. The small flotilla soon encountered a violent storm and the boats were separated. Manson's boat eventually landed on the east side of the Lena River Delta and all were rescued by natives of that region. Of the other two boats, one was lost and no sign of it was ever found and the other skippered by George W De Long, the Jeannette's captain landed on the west side of the Lena Delta. Of this last boat, all but two members died of starvation and exposure.

During the last years of his life, he suffered from severe rheumatism and eventual paralysis, all, in most likelihood, from his ordeal in the Arctic.

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
Adolph Dressler
Hans H. Erichson
Carl A. Gortz
Neils Iverson
Heinrick H. Kaack
Herbert W. Leach
Raymond Lee Newcomb
Alfred Sweetman
Walter Sharvell
Edward Starr
Peter E. Johnson
Albert Kuehne
Walter Lee
Henry D. Warren
James H Bartlett
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)

'Evening News'(Sault Ste Marie, MI), Saturday, March 26, 1904, Page 2

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