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'Perilous position of H.M.S. Terror, Captain Back, in the Arctic Regions in the summer of 1837' (Painting)
Owen Stanley Sketchbook 1836-1837. A series of slight sketches of... H.M.S. Terror... 1836, 1837 while on a voyage to ascertain the existance of a North West Passage... by Owen Stanley (Sketchbook)
No.24 View of HMS Terror surrounded by snow walls and part of Southampton Island with an effect of sunrise, Jan 1837 (Drawing)
No.10 The crew of His Majesty's ship HMS Terror breaking a passage in the ice, September 5th 1836 (Drawing)
The crew of HMS Terror breaking a passage in the ice, Sept 5 1836 (Print)
HMS Terror as she appeared after being thrown up by the ice on Sept 27 1836. Entrance of the Frozen Straits (Print)
HMS Terror and the paddle steamer Rhadamanthus at sea (Drawing)
No XVIII July 5th... a saw 34 feet long was worked right astern of the ship... (Drawing)
No VII About 8 A.M. Septr 20th the ice closed with a tremendous pressure... (Drawing)
No X Sketch of the Terror from the Observatory (Drawing)
Sketch of HMS Terror just after her arrival in Loch Swilly Septr 1837 (Drawing)
No XIII Sketch of the position of HMS Terror in the early part of March 1837 when the ice seemed likely to run over her (Drawing)
No II. Parting company with the Rhadamanthus off the Orkneys June 1836 (Drawing)
No IV Sailing through loose ice August 1836 (Drawing)
March 15th About 1 PM the ice closed upon the ship... This sketch represents the Terror's situation at 10PM (Drawing)
No XX After the ship settled down... the ice saw was again set to work and the mass was cut through... (Drawing)
No XIX July 11th... the ice gave way... and the ship settled down to within 2 feet of her proper draught of water... (Drawing)
Sketch showing the state of HMS Terror on her arrival in Loch Swilly (Drawing)
Medal commemorating the voyage of HMS 'Terror' 1836-7 (Medal)
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 in a heavy gale with a snow drift at the Entrance to the Frozen Strait 22/23 Dec 1836 (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)
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