1875-76 Private Expedition to Magnetic North Pole and North West Passage (Captain Allen Young aboard Pandora)

The first voyage hoped to trace magnetic pole, perhaps find the NW Passage, and at King William Island to “search for further records and for the journals of the ships ‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror’, all in one season to avoid expense and aggravation of wintering. The second voyage in 1876 was concerned about the welfare or fate of the 1875-76 Nares expedition, which in fact had faced serious problems with scurvy.

Under the Northern Lights, with Illustrations by G. R de Wilde.

MacGahan, Januarius A. (London: Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876).

1875-76 Private Expedition to Magnetic North Pole and North West Passage (Captain Allen Young aboard Pandora).
Arctic Reading: Great Britain

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Narrative of Captain Allen Young's expedition in his yacht Pandora (later the Jeannette), 1875-76, into Lancaster Sound, Barrow Strait, and into Peel Sound. Also contains an account of Young's sledge trips during M'Clintock's Fox Expedition. The Voyage was privately organized, its object to sail to the magnetic pole by way of Lancaster Sound and from there negotiate the North West Passage. They reached Beechey Island where they found a number of relics left by earlier expeditions but were finally beset by ice in Franklin Strait. There were two other works written on this expedition, both by the commander, one was privately published and contained photographs. (ABEBooks description.)

The Two Voyages of the ‘Pandora’ in 1875 and 1876.

Young, Allan. (London: Edward Stanford, 1879).

1875-76 Private Expedition to Magnetic North Pole and North West Passage (Captain Allen Young aboard Pandora).
Arctic Reading: Great Britain

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Mr De Wilde was the artist (hydrographic sketches) and J. A Macgahan the correspondent. Young was commander who earlier was the sailing master on McClintock’s Fox in 1857-59, and wrote the article in Cornhill #1 on the Fox, republished in 1875. By this time, Young was in the Naval Reserve, though this was not a Royal Navy mission. He himself paid for it with the help of Lady Franklin and James Gordon Bennett. Left on June 25 with two bags of letters for Alert and Discovery.