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    The 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole was a British Royal Navy expedition suggested by the Royal Society and especially its vice president...
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    HMS Racehorse (1757) (category Sloops of the Royal Navy)
    1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole. Renamed HMS Thunder in 1775, she was captured back by the French in 1778. Racehorse was originally the...
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    Mamluk Sultan of Egypt. June 4 – 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole sets out from Britain. June 10 – The Regulating Act is given royal assent...
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    On 4 June 1773, Phipps set off from Deptford on a voyage towards the North Pole. He had two ships, the Racehorse and the Carcass. Phipps took with him...
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  • British Royal Navy Phipps expedition towards the North Pole, which produces the first scientific description of the polar bear and the ivory gull. Scottish...
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    The Carcass was one of the two bomb vessels sent under the command of Constantine John Phipps to Svalbard during the 1773 Phipps expedition towards the...
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  • seawater was used on the second voyage of James Cook and on the 1773 expedition by Constantine John Phipps towards the North Pole, in which Irving participated...
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    traces the Coppermine River to the Arctic Ocean 1773: Ivan Lyakhov discovered Kotelny Island 1773: The Phipps expedition towards the North Pole reaches...
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    the 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole. Conway, W. M. 1906. No Man's Land: A History of Spitsbergen from Its Discovery in 1596 to the Beginning...
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  • month from the eighteenth century. 4 June – 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole sets out from the Nore. 21 June – Parliament passes the Regulating...
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