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Royal Geographical Society, London, 28 November 1853. 3½ x 4½ inches, lightly mounted on part album page. HMS Blossom was an 18-gun Cormorant-class sloop-of-war. She was built in 1806 and is best known for the 1825–1828 expedition under Captain Beechey to the Pacific Ocean, during which Beechey visited Pitcairn Island. Frederick William Beechey (1796-1856), naval officer and explorer. In 1818 he served under Lieutenant (afterwards Sir) John Franklin in David Buchan's Arctic expedition, of which at a later period he published a narrative. In the following year he accompanied Lieutenant W. E. Parry in HMS Hecla. In 1825, Beechey was appointed to command the HMS Blossom. His task was to explore the Bering Strait in concert with Franklin and Parry operating from the east. The whole voyage lasted more than three years and in the course of it Beechey discovered several islands in the Pacific. In 1831 there appeared his Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Berings Strait to Co-operate with the Polar Expeditions, 1825-1828. In 1854, he was made rear-admiral, and in the following year was elected president of the Royal Geographical Society.
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Address at the Anniversary Meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, 26Th May, 1856

by Beechey Frederick William 1796-1856 (Creator)

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Address at the Anniversary Meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, 26th May, 1856

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Proceedings of the Expedition to Explore the Northern Coast of Africa, from Tripoly Eastward; in...
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Proceedings of the Expedition to Explore the Northern Coast of Africa, from Tripoly Eastward; in MDCCCXXI. and MDCCCXXII: Comprehending an Account of ... the Ancient Cities Composing the Pentapolis

by Henry William Beechey Frederick William Beechey

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Proceedings of the Expedition to Explore the Northern Coast of Africa, from Tripoly Eastward; in...
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Proceedings of the Expedition to Explore the Northern Coast of Africa, from Tripoly Eastward; in MDCCCXXI. and MDCCCXXII: Comprehending an Account of ... the Ancient Cities Composing the Pentapolis

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To the Pacific and Arctic with Beechey. The Journal of Lieutenant George Peard of H.M.S. Blossom, 1825-1828. Edited by Barry M. Gough.

by Peard, George, 1783-1837. [Beechey, Frederick William, 1796-1856] Gough, Barry M., editor

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Cambridge UP for Hakluyt Society. Second Series, 1973 #143. Hard Cover. 272 p., index, plates incl. folding map. ‘The importance of the Northwest Passage in the history of European and especially British expansion is well known. …Peard’s journal of the voyage of Captain Frederick William Beechey, R.N. [1796-1856], and H.M.S. Blossom to the Pacific and Arctic in 1825-8 is a lucid account of one of the most comprehensive British naval voyages to the Pacific since the days of Cook, Vancouver, and Broughton. The Blossom made her way via Cape Horn to the Pacific, called at various places within the Pacific rim, and searched in vain for the expeditions of Captain William Edward Parry and John Franklin, expected at Bering Strait. George Peard, the first lieutenant of the Blossom, gives detailed descriptions of the places visited and the inhabitants, among them Pitcairn… Read More
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The zoology of Captain Beechey's voyage;
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The zoology of Captain Beechey's voyage;

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The Zoology Of Captain Beechey'S Voyage

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A Voyage of Discovery towards the North Pole, performed in His Majesty's Ships Dorothea and Trent, under the command of Capt. David Buchan, R.N., 1818; to which is added, a summary of all the early at

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Narrative Of A Voyage To The Pacific And Beering's Strait: To Co-operate With The Polar Expeditions Performed In His Majesty's Ship Blossom Under The Command Of Captain F. W. Beechey, R. N., F. R. S. &c. In The Years 1825, 26, 27, 28; Volume 2

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Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait: to Co-Operate With the Polar Expeditions Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom Under the Command of Captain F. W. Beechey, R. N., F. R. S. &C. in the Years 825, 26, 27, 28

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