Add to ORKGBeechey first went to sea at the age of ten. He began his career as an arctic geographer and voyager in 1818 in the Trent, under the command of John Franklin who was accompanying H.M.S. Dorothea as it attempted to voyage across the Polar Sea. The next year, having joined William Edward Parry, he made the voyage to "Parry's West". Aboard the ship Blossom, Beechey next set out with the intention of meeting Franklin's second overland expedition, arriving five days late for his intended rendezvous with Franklin
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Presents a biography of Frederick Beechy including a discussion of his contributions to the scientif...
Through the influence of John Barrow, ships and men left idle by the end of the Napoleonic Wars were...
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Contains a biography, originally prepared for Stefansson's Encyclopedia Arctica, of this British exp...
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.. The man who charted nearly 3000 km of the coastline of North America is best remembered as the le...
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