On July 8, 1879, the USS Jeanette departed San Francisco for the Bering Strait with the intention of finding a route to the North Pole.
With the ship crushed by the pressure of the ice, its captain, George W. De Long, and twenty of its crew never made it back to America.
The federal government called upon her captain, Calvin L. Hooper, to venture northwards and find out what happened to the USS Jeanette and the missing men.
Built out of the finest Oregon fir, fastened with copper, galvanized iron, and.
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