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Updated: June 22, 2025
Full complement, sixty-eight; making in all one hundred and thirty-eight souls. The expedition sailed from England, May the 26th, 1845. They arrived at the Whalefish Islands, a group to the south of Disco, on the 4th of July.
On the 16th of June they arrived at the Whalefish Islands, where they received the remainder of their supply of provisions from the transport. At the same time that Captain Austin's expedition was fitting out, another was arranged and placed under the command of Mr William Penny, an experienced whaling captain of Dundee, to act in concert with it.
Their chief aim was to visit Melville Island, and to explore the shores of Wellington Channel, and the coast about Cape Walker. The ships were provisioned for three years, and a transport completed their supply at Whalefish Islands.
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