HMS Terror in the Arctic rename

• George Back

  

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  Date of birth:

  Nov 6, 1796

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  Country of nationality:

  • Canada

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  Date of death:

  Jun 23, 1878

  Admiral Sir George Back FRS (6 November 1796 – 23 June 1878) was a British naval officer, explorer of the Canadian Arctic and artist. Back was born in Stockport. As a boy, he went to sea as a volunteer in the frigate HMS Arethusa in 1808 and took...

• HMS Terror

  

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  HMS Terror was a bomb vessel designed by Sir Henry Peake and constructed by the Royal Navy in the Davy shipyard in Topsham, Devon. The ship, variously listed as being of either 326 or 340 tons, carried two mortars, one 13-inch (330 mm) and one 10...

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