Return to Naval Historical Center home page. Return to Online Library listing

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 92155 "A Vessel Designed for Arctic Exploration" Sheer, half-breadth and body plans of an exploration steamer designed by Chief Engineer George Melville, USN, during the Jeannette expedition, 1880-1881. Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume II, page 885, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 208KB; 915 x 1225 pixels

NOTE: See Photo #s NH 92155 & NH 92156 Supplemental Material for a description of the ship design presented above. Written by Chief Engineer George W. Melville, it is entitled "Memoranda of Design for Construction and Fitting of a Vessel for Arctic Exploration".

Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

If you want higher resolution reproductions than this digital image, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

Return to Naval Historical Center home page.

29 August 2003