caa a22 4500 388025247 CHVBK 20180307124936.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199807 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0032247400025675 doi S0032247400025675 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0032247400025675 Barr William Department of Geography, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5A5, Canada ‘The cold of Valparaiso': the disintegration of William Kennedy's second Franklin search expedition, 1853-1854 [Elektronische Daten] [William Barr] In the autumn of 1852, convinced that a successful search for her husband's missing expedition via Bering Strait could only be guaranteed by using a steam vessel, Jane, Lady Franklin, decided to dispatch such a vessel herself (this was the third such expedition she mounted). Her choice of vessel fell on the screw schooner Isabel, which Captain E.A. Inglefield had just brought back from his search of Smith Sound and Jones Sound. The captain she selected was William Kennedy, who, with Enseigne-de-vaisseau Joseph-René Bellot as second-in-command, had just returned from an expedition to the eastern Arctic in Prince Albert. After a few brief months of hectic preparations, in which Lady Franklin and her niece Sophia Cracroft played an unusually active role, Isabel sailed from the Thames on 1 April 1853, bound for Bering Strait via the Strait of Magellan. Despite warnings not to do so (largely due to the danger of losing his crew to the lure of the Californian and Australian gold rushes), Kennedy put into Valparaiso on 26 August 1853. Almost all his officers and crew jumped ship. After more than two years of frustration, during which he generated some revenue by several coastal voyages off Chile, at Lady Franklin's request Kennedy brought Isabel back to England in early December 1855. Isabel was found to have dry rot and was sold. Kennedy fell out with Lady Franklin and did not participate in any further Arctic searches. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Polar Record Cambridge University Press 34/190(1998-07), 203-218 0032-2474 34:190<203 1998 34 POL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247400025675 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247400025675 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Barr William Department of Geography, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5A5, Canada NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Polar Record Cambridge University Press 34/190(1998-07), 203-218 0032-2474 34:190<203 1998 34 POL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge