Jenny (schooner)

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The Jenny was an alleged English schooner and the subject of an unproven legend. The story goes that the Jenny became frozen in an ice-barrier of the Drake Passage in 1823, only to be rediscovered in 1840 by a whaling ship, the bodies aboard being preserved by the Antarctic cold. The original report has been deemed unsubstantiated. [upper-alpha 1]

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The earliest known source for the story appears to be an article in the Wiener Zeitung published on 19 February 1841. [2] In the following weeks, the same text was printed in at least seven other newspapers. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

On the occasion of the McClintock Arctic expedition, the story of the schooner Jenny was remembered again: for example, in an anonymous article in an 1862 edition of Globus, a popular German geographical magazine. [10] [11]

Account

The supposed account describes how the ship left its home port on the Isle of Wight in 1822. [11] The ship was discovered frozen in ice in the Drake Passage by a Captain Brighton of the whaler Hope in September 1840. [11] The log had been entered until 17 January 1823. [11] The last port of call had been Callao, near Lima, Peru. [11] Brighton took the logbook with him in order to return it to the shipowners. [11]

Influence

The Jenny is commemorated by the Jenny Buttress, a feature on King George Island near Melville Peak, named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960. [12]

Australian poet Rosemary Dobson wrote about the story in her poem "The Ship of Ice" published in her book The Ship of Ice with other poems in 1948, which won the Sydney Morning Herald award for poetry that year. [13] Dobson's poem places the discovery of the Jenny in 1860, adding 20 years to the period of entrapment. [14] The poem speaks of her as a "ship caught in a bottle / [....] / Becalmed in Time and sealed with a cork of ice". [14] According to Dobson, her source was the anonymous report The Drift of the Jenny, 1823–1840. [14]

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References

Notes

  1. ↑ Robert K. Headland, in his book Chronological list of Antarctic expeditions and related historical events, writes that "There is no corroborative evidence for this event." [1]

Citations

  1. ↑ Headland, Robert K. (1989). Chronological list of Antarctic expeditions and related historical events. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 129. ISBN   0521309034.
  2. ↑ Vermischte Nachrichten . In:  Wiener Zeitung , 19 February 1841, p. 4 (Online at ANNO )
  3. ↑ Das Schiff im Eise . In: Der Bote von Tyrol, 1 March 1841, p. 4 (Online at ANNO )
  4. ↑ Vermischte Nachrichten . In: Laibacher Zeitung, 2 March 1841, p. 5 (Online at ANNO )
  5. ↑ Das Schiff im Eise. Eine wahre Begebenheit . In: Brünner Zeitung der k.k. priv. mährischen Lehenbank, 6 March 1841, p. 4 (Online at ANNO )
  6. ↑ Das Todtenschiff . In: Der Siebenbürger Bote, 12 March 1841, p. 2 (Online at ANNO )
  7. ↑ Ein Schiff im Eismeer . In: Didaskalia. Blätter für Geist, Gemüth und Publicität, 16 March 1841, p. 2 (Online at ANNO )
  8. ↑ Ein Schiff im Eismeer . In: Oesterreichischer Beobachter, 22 March 1841, p. 4 (Online at ANNO )
  9. ↑ Aus dem Seeleben . In: Gemeinnützige Blätter zur Belehrung und Unterhaltung, 22 April 1841, p. 3 (Online at ANNO )
  10. ↑ Ein Schiff im Eise des südlichen Polarmeeres. Verlag vom Bibliographischen Institut. 1862. p. 61.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "The Drift of the Jenny 1823–40". The Polar Record. 12 (79): 411–412. 1965. doi:10.1017/S0032247400054887. S2CID   251056231. (Translated from Globus, Bd 1, 1862, pp. 60 –61)
  12. ↑ "Jenny Buttress". Antarctic Gazetteer. Australian Antarctic Data Centre. Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 31 March 2008.
  13. ↑ "Papers of Rosemary Dobson". National Library of Australia . Retrieved 13 July 2007.
  14. 1 2 3 Elizabeth Leane (2007). ""A Place of Ideals in Conflict": Images of Antarctica in Australian Literature". In C. A. Cranston, Robert Zeller (ed.). The Littoral Zone: Australian Contexts and Their Writers. Rodopi. ISBN   978-90-420-2218-8.

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