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William Penny fonds [textual record]

Niveau hiérarchique :

Fonds

Date :

1850-1851.

Référence :

R6798-0-6-E, MG24-H28

Genre de documents :

Documents textuels

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Archives / Collections et fonds

No d'identification :

103962

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William Penny fonds
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Date(s) :

1850-1851.

Lieu de création :

Sans lieu, inconnu ou indéterminé

Étendue :

0.2 cm of textual records (10 p.).

Langue du document :

anglais

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Fonds consists of a record left by Captain William Penny in a stone cairn at Depot Point, Cornwallis Island, 8 August 1850, while participating in a search for Sir John Franklin. The document reports that Captain Penny's ships, the whaling brigs Lady Franklin and Sophia, were on the west side of Wellington Channel and that the winter quarters of Franklin's ships Erebus and Terror had been found as well as other evidence. The fonds also consists of a record left at Grinnel peninsula in 1851 by Captain Penny giving his position and the location of provisions.

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Penny, William, 1809-1892

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Penny, William, 1809-1892 : William Penny was born 12 July 1809 in Peterhead, Scotland and by the age of 12 had made his first whaling voyage on his father's ship Alert. By 1829, he had attained the rank of mate and was making regular annual trips to Davis Strait on additional whaling expeditions. He obtained his first command in 1835 and quickly supported Captain James Clark Ross in his suggestion that whalers forego their dangerous summer voyages from Britain in favour of whaling from the safety of shore stations on Baffin Island (N.W.T.). In this way, Penny came to explore much of the south end of Baffin Island on his ship the Neptune, however, by 1841 with the decline of the whaling industry, Penny found himself without a ship. He began sailing again late in 1844 and by the end of the decade became intrigued by the search for Sir John Franklin's expedition which had been missing since 1845.

Penny searched for Franklin during the whaling seasons of 1846 and 1849 but was unsuccessful, however, he gained the support of Lady Franklin and won command of an Admiralty-backed search expedition with the ships Lady Franklin and Sophia. Penny sailed in April 1850 and helped locate the site of Franklin's first winter quarters on Beechey Island after which he wintered in Assistance Harbour, Cornwallis Island in close proximity to the naval expeditions led by Captain Horatio Thomas Austin and Sir John Ross. During subsequent exploration, Penny discovered and explored Queens Channel and sighted the strait to the north which now bears his name. A quarrel with Austin over the direction of Franklin's voyage, however, led to the break down of the joint venture and the return of both parties to England; Penny arrived on 21 September 1851.

Following their arrival, a special Arctic Committee was convened by the Admiralty to examine the conduct of both men after which time, Penny renewed his interest in whaling in the Arctic which would continue up to his death on 1 February 1892 in Aberdeen, Scotland.

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Note générale :

The 1850 document was discovered by Inspector A.H. Joy, R.C.M.P. in 1929. The 1851 document was found by R.W.T. O'Connor of Carp, Ontario in 1960 and presented by him.
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Arctic regions - Discovery and exploration, 1850-1851 Cornwallis Island (N.W.T.), 1850

Arctic regions - Exploring expeditions, 1850-1851 Sir John Franklin, 1850

Lady, Franklin (Ship), 1850

Sophia (Ship), 1850

Wellington Channel (N.W.T.), 1850

Erebus (Ship), 1850

Terror (Ship), 1850
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MG24-H28
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