Proceedings of the <I>Proteus</I> Court of Inquiry on the Greely Relief Expedition of 1883

United States Congress

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139236553

In 1881, Adolphus Greely led a US Arctic expedition to gather meteorological, astronomical and magnetic data. The expedition was poorly supported by the US Army, neither Greely nor his men had experience of Arctic conditions, and their ship, the Proteus, sailed home without them once they landed in Greenland. An inadequately planned relief mission failed to reach them in 1882, and a second expedition in 1883, including the Proteus, also failed to locate the men or to land supplies. In 1884, Congress investigated the earlier attempts with a view to launching a further rescue. This report includes an inquiry into the inadequate earlier missions, details of Greely's original resources, and suggestions for a plan of approach for the rescue, including how to find the men and where they were likely to be. When found in 1884, only seven of the original team of twenty-five were still alive.

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INDEX TO PROCEEDINGS OF COURT OF INQUIRY
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Proceedings of a court of inquiry convened at Washington, D. C., pursuant to the following order, pages 1 to 115
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Proceedings of a court of inquiry convened at Washington, D. C., pursuant to the following order, pages 115 to 283
pp 115-283

INDEX TO PROCEEDINGS OF COURT OF INQUIRY
pp 285-310

APPENDIX
pp 311-572

INDEX TO APPENDIX
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Frontmatter pp i-iv

Proceedings of a court of inquiry convened at Washington, D. C., pursuant to the following order, pages 1 to 115 pp 1-115

Proceedings of a court of inquiry convened at Washington, D. C., pursuant to the following order, pages 115 to 283 pp 115-283

INDEX TO PROCEEDINGS OF COURT OF INQUIRY pp 285-310

APPENDIX pp 311-572

INDEX TO APPENDIX pp 573-583

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Proceedings of a court of inquiry convened at Washington, D. C., pursuant to the following order, pages 1 to 115
pp 1-115

Proceedings of a court of inquiry convened at Washington, D. C., pursuant to the following order, pages 115 to 283
pp 115-283

INDEX TO PROCEEDINGS OF COURT OF INQUIRY
pp 285-310

APPENDIX
pp 311-572

INDEX TO APPENDIX
pp 573-583