Lieutenant Commander George Washington DeLong 



U.S. Navy (1844- 1881) 



DeLong was selected to lead the Arctic Expedition being 

 fittedout by James Gordon Bennett, owner of the New York 

 Herald and an Arctic enthusiast. DeLong sailed from San 

 Francisco in July 1879 in command of the Jeannelte. a 142-foot 



steam bark owned by Bennett. Jeannette became embedded in 

 the polar ice pack from which she never escaped. The long trek 

 to the Siberian coast claimed the lives of DeLong and part of his 

 crew. 



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