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    HMS Investigator was a merchant ship purchased in 1848 to search for Sir John Franklin's ill-fated Northwest Passage expedition. She made two voyages to...
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  • Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Investigator. Another was planned, but renamed before being launched. The name Investigator passed on to the Royal Indian...
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  • Icebreaker Fyodor Litke HMS Griper (1813) USCGC Healy (WAGB-20) HMS Hecla (1815) HMS Investigator (1848) USS Jeannette (1878) Icebreaker Joseph Stalin Karluk (ship)...
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    crew upon the ice-bound ship, HMS Investigator in April 1853. Captain Kellett ordered McClure to abandon Investigator due to the ship being frozen in...
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    HMS Enterprise was an Arctic discovery ship laid down as a merchant vessel and purchased in 1848 before launch to search for Sir John Franklin's lost expedition...
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    June 1853. Found in the Beaufort Sea, July 2010. 74°05′04″N 119°00′09″W / 74.084397°N 119.002619°W / 74.084397; -119.002619 (HMS Investigator (1848))...
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    HMS Hamadryad in June 1810. In 1812, he served on HMS Briton and visited Pitcairn Island in 1814, where he met the last surviving mutineers from HMS Bounty...
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    commanded by Richard Collinson on HMS Enterprise and McClure as his subordinate, given command of HMS Investigator. The ships sailed south on the Atlantic...
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    HMS Basilisk was a first-class paddle sloop of the Royal Navy, built at the Woolwich Dockyard and launched on 22 August 1848. Basilisk was designed by...
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    (HMS Enterprise), Robert McClure (HMS Investigator) to Bering Strait. McClure frozen in at Banks Island and Investigator abandoned after two winters, crew...
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