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HMS Terror as she appeared after being thrown up by the ice on Sept 27 1836. Entrance of the Frozen Straits (Print)
March 15th About 1 PM the ice closed upon the ship... This sketch represents the Terror's situation at 10PM (Drawing)
No X Sketch of the Terror from the Observatory (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 IV Sailing through loose ice August 1836 (Drawing)
No XX After the ship settled down... the ice saw was again set to work and the mass was cut through... (Drawing)
HMS Terror and the paddle steamer Rhadamanthus at sea (Drawing)
No II. Parting company with the Rhadamanthus off the Orkneys June 1836 (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)
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)
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)
No.10 The crew of His Majesty's ship HMS Terror breaking a passage in the ice, September 5th 1836 (Drawing)
The crew of HMS Terror breaking a passage in the ice, Sept 5 1836 (Print)
'Perilous position of H.M.S. Terror, Captain Back, in the Arctic Regions in the summer of 1837' (Painting)
Sketch showing the state of HMS Terror on her arrival in Loch Swilly (Drawing)
No.24 View of HMS Terror surrounded by snow walls and part of Southampton Island with an effect of sunrise, Jan 1837 (Drawing)
Sketch of HMS Terror just after her arrival in Loch Swilly Septr 1837 (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)
No XI Sketch of HMS Terror from Mt Pleasant (Drawing)
HMS Terror during her passage home, on the larboard tack, showing sail carried to counteract effect of broken sternpost (Drawing)
No XV Sketch of HMS Terror on the morning of March 16 showing the situation in which she remained till July (Drawing)
No IX HMS Terror showing the courtyard, and snow walls built around the ship (Drawing)
Sketch showing the position of HMS Terror at daylight July 14 just before the people were called from the ice (Drawing)
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