"Nipped" Ships

"Nipped" Ships

Four nineteenth-century illustrations of ships "nipped" (or crushed) by polar ice.

From Elisha Kent Kane, The United States Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin (Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1857), facing p. 120.

From Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic Explorations in the Years 1853, '54, '55 (Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1856), facing p. 144.

Contexts:
- Geography -- Northern Passage