U.S. Brig Advance 



The 140-ton brig Advance was loaned to the Navy by Henry 

 Grinnell in 1850 as part of the First Grinnell Arctic Expedition 

 to search for the explorer Sir John Franklin, missing since 1845. 

 The expedition returned in 1851 without having found Franklin. 

 In 1853, Grinnell again donated the Advance for the Second 

 Grinnell Expedition under the command of Passed Asiiistant 

 Surgeon Ehsha Kent Kane, U.S. Navy. In 1855 the icebound 

 Advance was abandoned and his party undertook an overland 

 tiek of 83 days to safety. The Advance is shown here 

 accompanied by the 90-ton brig Rescue entering Lancaster 

 Sound during the First Grinnell Expedition in 1850. 



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