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No XVII The ship's Company were all employed clearing away the ice... when a great portion of it... broke away and nearly rolled over... (Drawing)
No XI Sketch of HMS Terror from Mt Pleasant (Drawing)
HMS Terror during her passage home, on the larboard tack, showing sail carried to counteract effect of broken sternpost (Drawing)
No XV Sketch of HMS Terror on the morning of March 16 showing the situation in which she remained till July (Drawing)
No IX HMS Terror showing the courtyard, and snow walls built around the ship (Drawing)
Sketch showing the position of HMS Terror at daylight July 14 just before the people were called from the ice (Drawing)
HMS Terror's stern lifted by the ice, 28 Sept 1837 (Drawing)
HMS Terror during her passage home, on the starboard tack, showing sail carried to counteract effect of broken sternpost (Drawing)
The people having been working... had hardly been off... when the mass broke away stricking [sic]... the Ship's side... (Drawing)
No XXI... the mass of ice split leaving a large mass still sticking to her... (Drawing)
Sketch of a vessel caught in the ice, probably HMS Terror (Drawing)
No XVI About 10 PM April 19th a barrier about 20 feet high was thrown up close to the ship... (Drawing)
HMS Terror in a heavy gale with a snow drift at the Entrance to the Frozen Strait 22/23 Dec 1836 (Drawing)
Crossing the Atlantic July 1836 (Drawing)
No XI Sketch of the position of HMS Terror the latter end of February 1837 (Drawing)
No V. At sunset Aug... the Ship was made fast to an ice berg... (Drawing)
Gold medal of the Société de Géographie de Paris, awarded to George Back for his voyage 1836-7 in HMS 'Terror' (Prize medal)
No.22 is a view of the Port side of the ship with an effect of sunrise in February 1837 and shewing the state of the snow walls at that time (Drawing)
HMS Terror beset in the ice, Fox's Channel, Aug 28 1836 (Print)
Perilous situation of HMS Terror being ripped by the ice in Fox's Channel, 1836 (Print)
Medal commemorating the voyage of HMS 'Terror' 1836-7 (Medal)
HMS Terror as she appeared after being thrown up by the ice on Sept 27 1836. Entrance of the Frozen Straits (Print)
March 15th About 1 PM the ice closed upon the ship... This sketch represents the Terror's situation at 10PM (Drawing)
No X Sketch of the Terror from the Observatory (Drawing)
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