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HM Ships "Erebus" and "Terror" parting from His Excellency Sir J. Franklin KCH on their cruise to the ice November 12th 1840. Entrance of the R. Derwent, Tasmania (Drawing)
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Steel table knife with ivory handle (Knife)
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No.10 The crew of His Majesty's ship HMS Terror breaking a passage in the ice, September 5th 1836 (Drawing)
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)
A sailing vessel, probably HMS Terror and a steam paddle vessel (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)
Sketches of HMS Terror monitor, HMS Attentive light cruiser, steam launch and ship's boats (Drawing)
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)
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Erebus (1826); Terror (1813) (Technical drawing)
Terror (1813); Erebus (1826) (Technical drawing)
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