miertsching

Updated: May 28, 2025

Mr Miertsching, a Moravian missionary, who had spent five years on the coast of Labrador, was appointed to the Enterprise as interpreter. The vessels sailed from Plymouth on the 20th of January 1850, and reached the Sandwich Islands on the 29th of June. Meantime the Herald, Captain Kellet, had been ordered up from Oahu to Behring's Straits, to assist in the search.

William Henry Giles Kingston - Our Sailors: Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign