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	HMS Erebus (1826) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Erebus was a Hecla class bomb vessel designed by Sir Henry Peake and constructed by the Royal Navy in Pembroke Dockyard, Wales in 1826.
		In 1840, Erebus, captained by James Clark Ross, departed from Tasmania for Antarctica on November 21 in company with HMS Terror.
		Erebus and Terror were fitted with 20 horsepower (15 kW) engines and single-screw propellers in 1844.
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	HMS Erebus -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The second (Click link for more info and facts about Erebus) Erebus was a 14-gun bomb vessel launched at (The smaller and straight-legged variety of corgi having pointed ears and a short tail) Pembroke in 1826.
		The third Erebus was an iron screw floating battery of 16 guns, launched in 1856 and sold in 1884.
		The fourth Erebus was originally the iron screw ship (Click link for more info and facts about Invincible) Invincible, renamed in 1904 and sold in 1906.
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		HMS Wizard of 1830 was lost on the Seal Bank off Berehaven in February 1859, the Skylark of 1826 was wrecked on the Isle of Wight in April 1845 and the Spey of 1827 was lost on Racoon Key in the Bahamas in November 1840.
		HMS Thais of 1829 was lost on passage from Falmouth to Halifax in December 1833 and the Camilla of 1847 in September 1860 off Japan.
		The composite gunvessel HMS Gnat, christened by Miss Mirehouse of Angle in the dark on 26 November 1867, was wrecked within a year when she ran aground on Balabac Island in the China Seas on 15 November 1868.
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	Encyclopedia: Mount Erebus
		Mount Erebus was discovered in 1841 by polar explorer Sir James Clark Ross (whose ships were named Erebus and Terror; these ships were also used by Sir John Franklin on his disastrous search for the Northwest Passage), and first climbed (to the rim) by members of Sir Ernest Shackleton's party in 1908.
		The Mount Erebus disaster occurred on November 28, 1979 when an Air New Zealand DC-10 with 257 people on board for a sightseeing trip over Antarctica crashed into the lower northern slope of Mount Erebus.
		The Commission of Inquiry concluded that the pilot had continued flying towards the mountain under visual flight rules because he was in clear air but was unaware that the mountain was directly in front of him because polar lighting caused a whiteout situation that made the mountain invisible.
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	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - HMS Erebus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1839 she came under command of James Clark Ross, a veteran of Arctic expeditions in Isabella, HMS Hecla, and Victory.
		Erebus and Terror (under Francis R. Crozier) sailed from Chatham on September 30, 1839, and after stops at ports of call in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, notably Simon's Bay, South Africa, and Kerguelen Island, they arrived at Hobart, Tasmania, in August 1840.
		Erebus and Terror each carried stores for two years, and another two years' worth were carried to the Whalefish Islands in the Davis Strait by the supply ship Barretto Junior.
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		HMS Erebus - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Erebus.
		Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Erebus after Erebus, the dark region of Hades in Greek Mythology.
		The two ships were converted to screw propulsion in 1844, and took part in John Franklin's expedition to the Arctic in 1845, where they became trapped in ice near King William Island and were abandoned in 1848.
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		Chesapeake Chesapeake, U.S. frigate, famous for her role in the Chesapeake affair (June 22, 1807) and for her battle with the H.M.S. Shannon (June 1, 1813).
		Erebus Erebusĕr´Ĭbes, in Greek religion and mythology, personification of darkness.
		Erebus, Mount Erebus, Mount, volcanic peak, 12,280 ft (3,743 m) high, on Ross Island, in the Ross Sea, E Antarctica.
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		Mount Erebus was discovered in 1841 by polar explorer Sir James Clark Ross (whose ships were named HMS Erebus (1826) and Terror; these ships were also used by Sir John Franklin on his disastrous search for the Northwest Passage), and first climbed (to the rim) by members of Sir Ernest Shackleton 's party in 1908.
		Erebus is currently the most active Volcano in Antarctica.
		The composition of the current eruptive activity on Mt. Erebus is Anorthoclase - Porphyric tephritic phonolite and Phonolite, which constitute the bulk of exposed lava flow on the volcano.
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	HMS Erebus (1826) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1843, Erebus and Terror sailed to the (A group of over 100 islands in the southern Atlantic off the coast of Argentina; a British crown colony) Falkland Islands and then to the Antarctic Peninsula.
		Erebus and Terror were fitted with 20 (A unit of power equal to 746 watts) horsepower (15 kW) engines and single-screw propellers in 1844.
		The two ships were last seen entering (A body of water between Greenland and northeastern Canada; connected with the Arctic Ocean to the north and with the Atlantic Ocean (via the Labrador Sea) to the south; icebound in winter) Baffin Bay in August 1845.
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	HMS Erebus
		The first Erebus was a rocket vessel built in 1807, converted to an 18-gun sloop in 1808, to a fire ship in 1809, and to a 24-gun sixth-rate in 1810.
		The second Erebus was a 14-gun bomb vessel launched at Pembroke in 1826.
		The fifth Erebus (I02), launched in 1916, was the first monitor of the Erebus class.
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	HMS Enterprize (1774) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Enterprize (1774) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMS Enterprize (1774) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Enterprize (1774).
		Enterprise was built at Deptford, England, launched in August 1774, and was commissioned in April 1775 under the command of T. Rich.
		In 1803, another Enterprize-class frigate, HMS Resource (built at Rotherhithe in 1778) was renamed Enterprize, and joined her sister ship at the Tower as another receiving ship to accommodate men taken up by another press at the end of the Peace of Amiens and the outbreak of the Napoleonic War.
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	Erebus and Terror, Ships of the Antarctic explorers, James Clark Ross
		Erebus and terror were designed as "bomb ships" for the naval bombardment of shore targets.
		Boats from HMS Erebus and HMS Terror - Sounded in open ocean at 27.43 S and 17.48 W. Recorded depth of approximately 2200 fathoms.
		On reaching nearly to Mount Erebus Ross encountered a feature he called the "Great Ice Barrier" at 78°4'S, a wall of ice rising 160 feet out of the sea and "...extended as far to the east and west as the eye could discern" that prevented any further sailing south.
	www.coolantarctica.com /Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/antarctic_ships/erebus_terror_antarctica.htm (2004 words)

	Irish-Canadian Franklin Search Expedition, 2004
		HMS Fury was ground to a pulp by the ice over the rocks of the Somerset Island beach that bears its name.
		And one ship, either HMS Terror or Erebus, was probably crushed in the ice off Cape Frances Crozier, its remains scattered beneath a permanently advancing cover of ice.
		One set is labeled “Terror and Erebus” (which adds to the perception that the ships are indistinguishable), however, these 1839 plans are actually of Erebus, as several notes and sketched features indicate different arrangements on Terror.
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	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - Chronologies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMS Vindictive sunk as blockship at Zeebrugge, Belgium.
		HMS Cossack frees POWs from Altmark in Norwegian fjord.
		HMS Lutine wrecks on coast of Holland with loss of 240 men and £2 million in gold.
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		The owner of a general store in Boston, he moved to New York in 1826, where he established one of the largest publishing houses in the country.
		He emigrated to Canada in 1826, was employed by a large shipbuilding company in Montreal, and later founded the Allan Line of steamships.
		Founded in 1826 as a penal colony, Albany is the oldest settlement in the state of Western Australia.
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		HMS Erebus (1826) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Erebus (1826).
		Here you will find more informations about HMS Erebus (1826).
		The ships' fate were revealed in a series of expeditions into the Arctic between 1848 and 1859 when it was discovered that both ships had become icebound.
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	HMS Erebus (1916) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMS Erebus was a World War I monitor launched in 1916.
		The vessel was the first of the Erebus -class.
		Erebus was used for coastal bombardment on D-Day in June 6, 1944.
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	HMS Engadine (1911) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMS Engadine was a seaplane tender which served in the World War I. She was built as a Folkestone-Boulogne-sur-Mer ferry by William Denny and Sons, Ship naming and launching on 23 September 1911 and named after the Engadin in Switzerland.
		She taken over by the Royal Navy in 1914 along with her sister ship HMS Riviera and modified by the construction of cranes and a hanger aft of the funnels so that she could carry four Short 184 seaplanes.
		Later in the battle she rescued the crew of the crippled HMS Warrior before taking her in tow.
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	HMS Terror - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Terror.
		The first five Terrors were small bomb vessels and gunboats of 4 to 14 guns.
		HMS Terror was also the name of a shore base in Singapore.
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	HMS Erebus (1826) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		HMS Erebus (1826) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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	SHIPWRECKS ON THE AUSTRALIA RUN
		As a subsidiary naval vessel she was known as HMS Bark Endevour, as distinct from another vessel of the same name already in service.
		HMS Brisk searched the Chatham Islands for two boats containing Captain Yule and most of the passengers and crew but no trace of them was ever found.
		Several ships were chartered to rescue the men on St. Paul, and after receiving a severe battering from the weather when approaching the island HMS Malacca finally completed loading on 5 September 1871, then set a course for Western Australia, arriving at King George Sound nine days later.
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		TEES was paid off at Chatham at the beginning of 1826 and from the summer of 1826 she was used as a church ship at Liverpool.
		She arrived in Plymouth from Torbay on the 1 January 1800 and the same day she was sent off in pursuit of a French privateer which had been seen boarding a brig in Whitsand Bay and then taking a cow and some corn from Looe Island.
		For the rest of the year she was occupied off the Isles of Scilly measuring the sailing qualities of three experimental ships and in 1825 and 1826 she carried diplomats to Naples, Constantinople and South America.
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	Pacific WAML April 2004
		It was the Erebus, sent off (like Darwin's Beagle) on a round-the-world charting expedition, from which Hooker went ashore on Tasmania, New Zealand, and an interesting little nub called Kerguelen Island, halfway between Antarctica and nowhere.
		HMS Beagle departed the Galápagos and headed across the Pacific Ocean to Australia, then across the Indian Ocean, and back to England, and the "mixed-up finches" were handed over to John Gould, an ornithologist.
		It was Gould who confirmed a "perfect gradation in the size of the beaks in the different species" since there were some birds with massive beaks, like nutcrackers, while there were other finches with beaks so delicate, they could be used as tweezers; and there were many forms of beaks which were intermediate.
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	George Peabody (1795-1869) : Thursday, March 24, 2005 - Posts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The British ship, HMS Resolute, was abandoned in the Arctic ice in the search for Sir John Franklin.
		HMS Monarch left Funchall Bay accompanied by the USS Plymouth, went west across the Atlantic to Bermuda, and north to Portland, Me. •Ref. "Log of the Monarch," Admiralty 53/9877, Public Record Office, London.
		Joined the Livery on 5 December 1809, joined the Court of Assistants on 19 June 1826, and was Prime Warden in 1848.
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	Research guide Q3: Relics of Sir John Franklin's last expedition: NMM PORT
		As well as the relics, the Museum holds charts and maps from the Hopton Hall Collection relating to Franklin's voyages (see research guides Q1 and Q2).
		The two vessels were sighted by whaling vessels at the end of July, after which they were never seen again.
		AAA2207 Table knife with initials WR (William Reed, HMS Erebus or William Rhodes, HMS Terror)
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	Explorer Books Old Catalogue 33
		The Cruise of H.M.S. Dwarf in the Falkland Islands 1881-1882.
		Mulock was then only twenty-one years of age, but having received some excellent instruction as a surveyor in H.M.S. Triton, and having a natural bent for this work, his services proved invaluable (Scott in The Voyage of the Discovery).
		Erebus and Terror circumnavigated the Antarctic continent, pushing through the pack ice to chart some 500 miles of new coastline in Victoria Land, discover Ross Island and the Ross Ice Shelf.
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	French Revolution -- biographical notes
		It was sunk in the fight with HMS Serapis in 1789, the greatest triumph of Jones's career.
		Erebus, the mythological personification of the darkness of the underworld.
		Erebus was said to be a son of Chaos.
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	FIU OCB3043 Lecture Notes
		1831-1836: Voyage of HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin.
		Edward Forbes (1815-1854) He studied the fauna of the Aegean Sea and did much to stimulate interest in marine biology, partly, perhaps, by promoting an active study of depths greater than 300 fathoms (550 m), below which he believed that animal life ceased to exist.
		They found many new species of animals and made enough temperature observations to show that there was an active circulation of the water below the surface.They dredged at depths down to 2000 fathoms.
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