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The Antarctic Voyage of the Hopeful and Rose, 1833

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

R. T. Gould
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The following short account of this little-known voyage is mainly based on some letters from Messrs Enderby to the Admiralty, which are now in the Public Record Office (IN letters to Secretary, 1/4308).

Immediately on Biscoe's return from his Antarctic circumnavigation (January 1833) his employers, Messrs Enderby Bros., planned a voyage which should follow up his discoveries. On the previous voyage, however, the cutter Lively, Biscoe's consort, had been wrecked at the Falklands, and while the loss was partly covered by insurance it had been sufficiently heavy for her owners to look round for financial assistance in the new enterprise.

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Polar Record , Volume 4 , Issue 32 , July 1946 , pp. 394 - 395
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1947

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page 394 note 1 Dr H. R. Mill is, I think, premature in making them sail on 13 May 1833 (Siege of the South Pole, p. 164).Google Scholar Rea embarked in the Hopeful on this date.

page 395 note 1 Roughly 50 miles northward of Clarence Island, South Shetlands.

page 395 note 2 See Appendix.