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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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HMS Terror during her passage home, on the larboard tack, showing sail carried to counteract effect of broken sternpost (Drawing)
HMS Terror during her passage home, on the starboard tack, showing sail carried to counteract effect of broken sternpost (Drawing)
Crossing the Atlantic July 1836 (Drawing)
HMS Terror's stern lifted by the ice, 28 Sept 1837 (Drawing)
Sketch showing the position of HMS Terror at daylight July 14 just before the people were called from the ice (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)
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)
Sketch of a vessel caught in the ice, probably HMS Terror (Drawing)
The people having been working... had hardly been off... when the mass broke away stricking [sic]... the Ship's side... (Drawing)
No XV Sketch of HMS Terror on the morning of March 16 showing the situation in which she remained till July (Drawing)
No XXI... the mass of ice split leaving a large mass still sticking to her... (Drawing)
No XVI About 10 PM April 19th a barrier about 20 feet high was thrown up close to the ship... (Drawing)
No IX HMS Terror showing the courtyard, and snow walls built around the ship (Drawing)
No XI Sketch of HMS Terror from Mt Pleasant (Drawing)
Terror (1813); Erebus (1826) (Technical drawing)
Terror (1813) (Technical drawing)
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