Word: iced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HELL ON ICE - Commander Edward Ellsberg-Dodd, Mead...
Loading their three boats (weighing four tons) on sledges, and carrying three and a half tons of food, the crew started over the ice, with Siberia 500 miles south of them. In eight days they traveled five and a half miles. But the ice had moved beneath them: they were 25 miles north of where they started. Three months later a few of the survivors, some blind, some mad, one so badly frozen his feet had fallen off, landed on the coast of Siberia where the Lena River pours into the Arctic. Of a party of 14 men, including Commander...
...Siberia, through the Bering Straits to the black cliffs of Herald Island, the Jeannette pushed her way. There she was frozen in, far south of the Pole, even south of waters regularly visited by whalers. Contrary to common belief, the frozen wastes were not silent and inert. Submerged ice floes smashed steadily against the hull of the Jeannette. The pressure on her timbers made the ship crack with a sound like repeated rifle shots, and at times the sides seemed to pant under the strain. The ice itself seemed alive. Once a section near the Jeannette churned...
...almost two years she was held, while the ice drifted slowly north, and when at last she broke free, leaking like a sieve, another pack crushed her like a giant nutcracker, heaved her almost above the surface, then opened again to let her plunge to the bottom...
...Congressional committees investigated the Jeannette'?, fate, parts of Commander De Long's journal were published, but what happened in the two years in the ice pack remained a mystery. Piecing the story together from these documents and unpublished writings of other members of the crew, Commander Ellsberg (On the Bottom) has tried to make its terrors more oppressive by the device of having it told by Chief Engineer Melville as a first-hand observer. Not altogether successful, the device enables Commander Ellsberg to put hackneyed remarks in the mouths of the characters that rob the book of authority...