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The whale ‘Est of Whitby, master William Soresby, waterlogged after part of her hull was ripped off by ice in latitude 71 degrees N. in the Greenland Sea, July 1816. After the failure of the attempt shown here ‘to invert the vessel so as to bring the damaged section clear of the water, Scoresby managed to plug the leak, and when the help of another whaler brought the Est Back to Whitby, ‘a mere hulk'.

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. . . . During July the ships edged their way north, the crews sometimes sawing a channel through the ice, and checking landmarks against the journals of ‘those daring old fellows, Baffin and Deais (Parry’s cheerful words). On this, his first Arctic voyage, Parry was fascinated by ‘whimsicalities’ of the ice. ‘It is impossible to say, from the appearance of the field of it at one moment how it will be ten m] minutes away afterwards – so suddenly, and apparently without having cause, does it sometimes open, when it could be least expected.’ The journal of the ‘Axexander’s’ purser, William Hopper, recorded a more sombre reminder of the dangers of navigation in the ice when on 15 July nearby whalers told him that the ‘Three Whalers’ of Hull ‘had been “nipped” a few days ;bebfore. . . . by two floes closing upon her, with great rapidity and force. They met just under her bows, and completely cut the cull in halves – the Men had just time to escape on the ice when the ship went down’ ~ 175

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