Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Herald during the years 1845-1851, under the command of Captain Henry Kellett : being a circumnavigation of the globe, and three cruizes to the Arctic regions in search of Sir John Franklin
Description: The Herald left England in 1845 on a surveying voyage to the Pacific Ocean, but was called to the Bering Strait three times (in 1848, 1849, and 1850) to assist the Plover in the search for Sir John Franklin's expedition. The Herald also met with the Investigator (another Franklin search vessel)in 1850. A summary of the Franklin search expeditions sent out between 1848 and 1853 is presented in chapter 12 by A. Petermann. The six year voyage from England rounded Cape Horn and proceeded to South and Central America, the Pacific Islands, and the Bering Strait region, and returned via Cape of Good Hope. The author was the naturalist who joined the ship in January of 1847, after the death of the former naturalist, Thomas Edmonston. The account includes: a section on the Straits Juan de Fuca (with a visit to Port Victoria and the Harbour of Esquimalt in 1846 - only three years after the founding of the settlement), a description of the first northern cruise to Kamchatka and the Kotzebue Sound region of Alaska, and a cruise in mid-1849 (accompanied by the Plover) through Bering Strait to Wainwright Inlet and the discovery of Herald Island.
Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: The Herald left England in 1845 on a surveying voyage to the Pacific Ocean, but was called to the Bering Strait three times (in 1848, 1849, and 1850) to assist the Plover in…