I have hired a vessel
Wooden-hulled ships before the age of steam were vulnerable to
innumerable hazards in the arctic and, given the length of such
expeditions, required ample storage space for provisions. This is the
provision list for John Ross's five-year
(1829-33) search for a northwest
passage.
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From Sir John Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in search of a
north-west passage (London: John Webster, 1835), pp. 482-83.
Typical nineteenth-century expeditionary ships:
![[Sketches]](../Gifs/boats.gif)
