328 ARCTIC VOYAGES. Chap. IX. 



1821 1 Admiralty Midshipman in the Fury in Captain 

 1822 1 Parry's 2nd voyage of discovery to the Arctic seas ; 

 1823] was made Lieutenant, 26th December, 1822. 

 1824 j Lieutenant in the Fury, Captain Hoppner, 3rd voyage 



-,«* A of Captain Parry. To draw charts and make 



1825] . r J 



I drawings. 



1827 First-Lieutenant in the Hecla, Captain Parry ; ac- 

 companied him in command of the 2nd boat in his 

 attempt to reach the North Pole. Promoted on 

 return, 8th November, 1827. 



1829] In private steam-vessel, Victory. 

 to > On the 1st of June, 1831, planted the Union-jack on 



1833J tne N or th Magnetic Pole. On return presented 

 by the College of Arms with an addition to the 

 arms of Ross ; representing the flag flying on the 

 Magnetic Pole, with additional crest, " on a rock, 

 a flag-staff erect, thereon hoisted the Union-jack, 

 inscribed with the date, 1st June, 1831." 



1834 Promoted to the rank of Captain, 28th October, 1834. 



1835 Employed making magnetic observations, preparatory 



to commencing the magnetic survey of England. 



1836 Captain in the ship commissioned by the Admiralty, 



sent in search of the missing whalers, in the depth 



of winter.* 



* On a representation from Hull that eleven whale ships and 

 six hundred men were left in the ice and in danger of perish- 

 ing, and requesting the Admiralty to send out relief, Captain 

 James Ross volunteered to go out in the depth of winter, and 

 the three lieutenants, Crozier, Inman, and Ommanney, with 

 the three mates, Jesse, Buchan, and John Smith, and Mr. 

 Hallett, clerk in charge, volunteered to join him. He hoisted 

 his pennant on the 21st December, and after a stormy voyage 

 arrived in Davis Strait, and found nine of the missing ships 

 were by that time in England, that the tenth was released and 

 on her passage, and the eleventh was probably lost, as some of 

 her casks had been picked up at sea. 



