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The Jenny was an alleged English schooner and the subject of an unproven legend. The story goes that the Jenny became frozen in an ice-barrier of the Drake Passage in 1823, only to be rediscovered in 1840 by a whaling ship, the bodies aboard being preserved by the Antarctic cold.
Ploty
Oh man, there was ice these days...
duffman3335
Anyone else picturing ppl standing on the ice, frozen solid?
Frogapus
“He kept his log 'til the bloody end // Last entry read ‘Rats in the hold // My crew is dead, I fear the plague…’”
DonL9
I'll just leave this here, then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9duLB3mG6G8
Blazefast
No food for 71 day's, 71 day's.... Just try and imagine that and then put in the cold, no hot whower.... Brrrr.
wadenelson
Do you report the cannibalism or not?
ThatBastardIdiot
You sure it wasn't called "Prid of Ankh-Morpork"?
Jeager7
The drake passage is a fearsome place
TheDentDad
A schooner is a sailboat stupid head!
kriswinters
YOU KNOW WHAT? THERE IS NO EASTER BUNNY!
goflyblind
n3ckr0mantic
High in the halls of the kings who are gone; Jenny will dance with her ghosts
mercbrit
His last entry, is “chilling”!
PrfctDrk
SuperSaiyanSasquatch
GenXHippie
MagnificentCake
Ohhhhh so thats what dread hunger is based on
jj86
Just sitting here chillin' bro.
JOKERZwild86
Didn’t they do a show about this ship? Horror themed series
thundercactus
The Terror. And it was about the Franklin expedition. Great show, but they could have retold it accurately and it would have been good.
LukeThighwalker69
Yea didn't need the supernatural angle
igobeder
Seems as if he would have had a lot of frozen meat on hand to survive.
Rebullo
Enough for let's say... 71 days?
igobeder
Depends how many frozen crew he had in the hold.
Perfzilla
Was it the Captain named Phillips?
dagnorbert
That’s Capt Gump though.
twfx
The crew was served with “peas and carrots”
AlmightyThor117
Wowter99
He looks like he didn't had food for 71 days as welll.
IfiHadToChooseBetweenTheMailAndTheTacos
Linanz
Should of just eaten each other
derekjohn
It can only be an unpleasant death when Hell might be an improvement. [because you'll finally be warm again].
PatrickCarroll
"The Jenny was an alleged English schooner." - So they don't even know if the ship existed or not, or did they go overboard on allegedlies?
GeForcen
71 days with no food? Wonder if he tried people after that long.
Rips4w
Would have been during the 71 days.
TheFunionKnight
Then who wrote note
slidewhistlesymphony
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_(schooner)
ImageAberration
If that link doesn't work for you, try this one:. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_%28schooner%29?wprov=sfla1
GemsAreOutrageousTrulyTrulyTrulyOutrageous
Appreciated.
CyranoDeBurlapSack
It’s not a schooner, it’s a sailboat.
Elsoyyo
Skeptical there would be anything not crushed and scattered by the ice....
Elnauriel
Many of those arctic/antarctic exploring ships were greatly re-enforced and intended to survive several winters frozen in pack ice.
Elsoyyo
Purpose built with nearly 100 years advancement in tech
BrdCdn
The Franklin expedition was frozen in the ice then later sank. Ships were in excellent condition when found recently.
CheddarDreams
Lost ships are so fascinating to me, especially the Franklin Expedition
abeansits
You ever read the books detailing the searches for the Franklin expedition? Available free on Google, an ancient account of the voyages.
thundercactus
OH, there was a really interesting article I had found explaining how the lead poisoning was most likely due to the ships water system...
thundercactus
rather than the tinned food. Since MANY other expeditions were using the same food, but none the same water/boiler system.
CheddarDreams
Ooh that is interesting I had only heard about the tinned food being the issue
thundercactus
Found it! https://www.hakluyt.com/downloadable_files/Journal/Battersby_Franklin.pdf
AnonOmis1000
Why is it always the captain that's last to survive?
TheDreadPirateJayneCobb
Because when the captain dies, the first mate becomes captain. And when the first mate dies...
MapleSyrupMafia
You eat the lowest grades first.
PonySlaystation5
They also did the least physical work on top of all else.
BidenduexMaximus
well if that's the case, i will live very long
mercbrit
That pic though is of the Ross Sea party, a part of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
cliffbarsancereal
Love shackleton
TheDreadPirateJayneCobb
Absolute textbook example of built different
cliffbarsancereal
Yes
Jeeveli
No way the whole imperial atlantic expedition was trans
mercbrit
And sponsored by a posh soap manufacturer too.
thundercactus
Well it was the early 20th century. If trans people wanted to party they had to do it outside the British empire.
Elnauriel
This whole exchange made my day! =)
TheDreadPirateJayneCobb
Hello, fellow Shackleton enthusiast.
feralfear
My dudesssss
hawknutz
Hello!
mercbrit
I say old chap, bit nippy outside.
cliffbarsancereal
What was the saying? For speed Amindson, for science someone else, in emergency choose Shackleton?
cliffbarsancereal
https://leadershipcenter.wharton.upenn.edu/education/leading-in-hard-times-lessons-from-shackleton/
EnchantingWzrdOfRiven
Neat. No idea what any of that is but still cool.
MaceDJ
And expedition is when a group of people go explorin.
Yotarian
And a group of people is what happened before the covid times.
TheDreadPirateJayneCobb
It's a great story. https://www.history.com/news/shackleton-endurance-survival
GradientApollo
It is a journey worth researching. Both the most inspiring example of human perseverance and horrific showing of natural terrors.
AtsaMattaForMe
Dopplerfart
Great show, at least season 1, season 2 is utter crap
SMarkt
i have seen and like both seasons.
Elnauriel
Pretty sure the book it was based on only covered season 1 material. I could be mistaken though. Loved the book and first season. =)
Dopplerfart
Really ? I didn't know there was a book, same title ?
Elnauriel
Yep, it's a good read! =) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terror_(novel)
Dopplerfart
Thx ! To my wishlist it goes :)
allthenamesaregone
What's unproven about it? Seems relatively easy to verify either way.
mfrybeasley
I guess what hasn't been proven are bits and pieces of what happened that have been unable to be confirmed in their entirety.
LooseyGooseyBrett
What makes it a legend? It sounds like a failure?
RTK4740
Yeah, but wow, WHAT a failure! Legend.
mfrybeasley
Still interesting to anyone who dogs this sort of thing.
HypnagogicHallucinations
These are clearly the cold hard facts.
DisgruntledFerret
HypnagogicHallucinations
aintnothinbutahounddog28
How?? There weren't exactly cameras on ships in the 1860s. All you can prove is if someone originally said it happened at that time, as
aintnothinbutahounddog28
opposed to it being made up in modern times. 'Proof' back then was someone returning from a sea voyage and saying they saw it
SilverHarvest
The parts of the legend up for debate if I recall correctly after looking up few years ago. Timing of logs due to how the cpt died at 71dys>
SilverHarvest
> then the other two was there wasn't a formal record of ship existence. As well the description of how it was frozen.
YouWillNeverFindMe
Not confirming or denying here, but if you have enough fat... One guy went a full year without food.
Etereo
Na
Metalhead47
Plenty of fat on the frozen crew… plenty of wood to make a fire… just sayin…
RelartOfGivia
They were on rations for a long time
SilverHarvest
Possible not probable. The constant shivering fear of hypothermia is reason for dbt with time. Event happened just details of it debated.
WarlockWithNoPatron
Fat does not store vitamins and minerals necessary to survive, only calories. Without those vitamins, it is impossible to survive so long.
YouWillNeverFindMe
But you don't instantly die, your eyesight weakens, same with your bones. It's becoming more common today with vitamin deficiency, so much