The Jenny was an early 1800’s 3-masted English schooner. In 1822, she left the Isle of Wight for a journey to Peru. Late in the year, she became trapped in ice on the return trip while navigating the Drake Passage.
Seventeen years later, a whaling boat named Hope spotted a large schooner drifting among broken ice floes. The Hope’s captain and several crew members boarded her and discovered it was the long-lost Jenny. Her entire crew was found dead with their bodies well preserved by the cold. The Jenny’s captain was frozen at his desk hunched over his last log entry, “May 4, 1823. No food for 71 days. I am the only one left alive.”
Adding to the intrigue, there's uncertainty about whether the story is true or legend. Jenny’s tragic plight was written about in several periodicals during the 1840’s, but none cited credible sources. There is also speculation that Jenny’s story was really about another ship named Octavius that was found near Greenland 50 years earlier.
For my presentation, I tried to make the Jenny appear as the Hope would have found her – thawing out form a deep winter freeze while showing 17 years of weather-beaten effects.
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