The Jenny was an alleged English schooner and the subject of an unproven legend. The story goes that the Jenny became frozen in an ice-barrier of the Drake Passage in 1823, only to be rediscovered in 1840 by a whaling ship, the bodies aboard being preserved by the Antarctic cold. The original report has been deemed unsubstantiated.[A]
The earliest known source for the story appears to be an article in the Wiener Zeitung published on 19 February 1841.[2] In the following weeks, the same text was printed in at least seven other newspapers.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
On the occasion of the McClintock Arctic expedition, the story of the schooner Jenny was remembered again: for example, in an anonymous article in an 1862 edition of Globus, a popular German geographical magazine.[10][11]
- ^ Headland, Robert K. (1989). Chronological list of Antarctic expeditions and related historical events. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 129. ISBN 0521309034.
- ^ Vermischte Nachrichten. In: Wiener Zeitung, 19 February 1841, p. 4 (Online at ANNO)
- ^ Das Schiff im Eise. In: Der Bote von Tyrol, 1 March 1841, p. 4 (Online at ANNO)
- ^ Vermischte Nachrichten. In: Laibacher Zeitung, 2 March 1841, p. 5 (Online at ANNO)
- ^ Das Schiff im Eise. Eine wahre Begebenheit. In: Brünner Zeitung der k.k. priv. mährischen Lehenbank, 6 March 1841, p. 4 (Online at ANNO)
- ^ Das Todtenschiff. In: Der Siebenbürger Bote, 12 March 1841, p. 2 (Online at ANNO)
- ^ Ein Schiff im Eismeer. In: Didaskalia. Blätter für Geist, Gemüth und Publicität, 16 March 1841, p. 2 (Online at ANNO)
- ^ Ein Schiff im Eismeer. In: Oesterreichischer Beobachter, 22 March 1841, p. 4 (Online at ANNO)
- ^ Aus dem Seeleben. In: Gemeinnützige Blätter zur Belehrung und Unterhaltung, 22 April 1841, p. 3 (Online at ANNO)
- ^ Ein Schiff im Eise des südlichen Polarmeeres. Verlag vom Bibliographischen Institut. 1862. p. 61.
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