ltwilliammowett: Lieutenant Owen Stanley of the British Royal Navy kept a journal detailing his pers
ltwilliammowett:Lieutenant Owen Stanley of the British Royal Navy kept a journal detailing his personal experiences on HMS Terror. The journal has been housed at the University of Toronto’s Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library since 1971.Stanley was the surveyor on the HMS Terror on an 1836 expedition, nine years before the Northwest passage expedition. A book of his watercolours from the voyage is also kept at the Rare Book Library. These Sketch shows the HMS Terror in the Ice of the Northwest Passage -- source link
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