Return to Naval Historical
Center home page.
Return to Online
Library listing
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images:
-- PEOPLE -- UNITED STATES --
Henry H. Kaack, Seaman, USN; and
Walter Lee, Machinist, USN
Henry H. Kaack and Walter Lee were members of the 1879-1881
Jeannette
Arctic expedition. In September 1881, after their ship's loss
and a subsequent journey across the pack ice and the Arctic seas,
they were among the fourteen men who landed on the northern end
of the Lena River Delta, Siberia. All but two of this party, weakened
by exposure and lack of food, died during the following weeks.
Kaack and Lee both succumbed on 21 October 1881. Their bodies
were later found and, in early 1884, were brought back to the
United States for burial.
This page features all the views we have related to Jeannette
expedition crewmen Henry H. Kaack and Walter Lee.
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 92144
Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881
Facsimile of the next-to-last page of Lieutenant Commander George
DeLong's journal, covering 21-24 October 1881, as his party was
dying of starvation at the head of the Lena River Delta, Siberia.
Numbered days reflect the time since USS Jeannette was
abandoned in the ice north of Siberia.
Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume
II, page 798, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 80KB; 500 x 765 pixels |
 |
Photo #: NH 92152
"Plan of the Last Camp, Showing the Position in which the
Bodies were Found."
Plan of the final camp of Lieutenant Commander George DeLong
and his men from the Arctic exploration ship Jeannette,
in the Lena River Delta, Siberia. All members of the party perished
there in October-November 1881. Their bodies were found the following
March.
Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume
II, page 854, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 325 pixels |
 |
Return to Naval
Historical Center home page.
Page made 11 January 2004