Ship Summary
Vessel
Journey Notes
HMS Blossom was an 18-gun Cormorant-class sloop-of-war. She was built in 1806 and is best known for the 1825–1828 expedition under Captain Beechey to the Pacific Ocean. She explored as far north as Point Barrow, Alaska, the furthest point into the Arctic any non-Inuit had been at the time. She was finally broken up in 1848;
Spithead/Pitcairn/Tahiti/Hawaii/Marianas/Bonins/Bering Strait (1825-1828);
Lieut George Peard's journal entitled "To the Pacific and Artic with Beechy", (Hakluyt society, 1973);
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Blossom_(1806)"
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