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Edward Bransfield, the Glossary

Edward Bransfield (c. 1785 – 31 October 1852) was an Irish sailor who became an officer in the British Royal Navy, serving as a master on several ships, after being impressed into service in Ireland at the age of 18.^[1]

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19th-century Irish explorers
Irish Antarctic explorers
Irish sailors in the Royal Navy
People from Midleton
Royal Navy personnel of the Bombardment of Algiers (1816)

Able seaman

An able seaman (AB) is a seaman and member of the deck department of a merchant ship with more than two years' experience at sea and considered "well acquainted with his duty".

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Antarctic Circle

The Antarctic Circle is the most southerly of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of Earth.

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Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Ballinacurra, County Cork

Ballinacurra is a small harbour village on the outskirts of Midleton, County Cork.

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Battle of Trafalgar

The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement that took place on 21 October 1805 between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815).

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Bombardment of Algiers (1816)

The Bombardment of Algiers was an attempt on 27 August 1816 by Britain and the Netherlands to end the slavery practices of Omar Agha, the Dey of Algiers.

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Bransfield Strait

Bransfield Strait or Fleet Sea (Estrecho de Bransfield, Mar de la Flota) is a body of water about wide extending for in a general northeast – southwest direction between the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Brighton

Brighton is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the city of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England.

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Cape Horn

Cape Horn (Cabo de Hornos) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island.

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Captain's clerk

A captain's clerk was a rating, now obsolete, in the Royal Navy and the United States Navy for a person employed by the captain to keep his records, correspondence, and accounts.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Cherokee-class brig-sloop

The Cherokee class was a class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy, mounting ten guns.

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Clarence Island (South Shetland Islands)

Clarence Island (остров Шишкова) is the easternmost island in the South Shetland Islands, off the coast of Antarctica.

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County Cork

County Cork (Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns are Mallow, Macroom, Midleton, and Skibbereen., the county had a population of 584,156, making it the third-most populous county in Ireland.

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Deception Island

Deception Island is in the South Shetland Islands close to the Antarctic Peninsula with a large and usually "safe" natural harbor, which is occasionally affected by the underlying active volcano.

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East Antarctica

East Antarctica, also called Greater Antarctica, constitutes the majority (two-thirds) of the Antarctic continent, lying primarily in the Eastern Hemisphere south of the Indian Ocean, and separated from West Antarctica by the Transantarctic Mountains.

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Elephant Island

Elephant Island is an ice-covered, mountainous island off the coast of Antarctica in the outer reaches of the South Shetland Islands, in the Southern Ocean.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen

Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshausen or Fabian Gottlieb Benjamin von Bellingshausen (–) was a Russian cartographer, explorer, and naval officer of Baltic German descent, who attained the rank of admiral. Edward Bransfield and Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen are 1852 deaths and explorers of Antarctica.

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Fifth-rate

In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a fifth rate was the second-smallest class of warships in a hierarchical system of six "ratings" based on size and firepower.

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First-rate

In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a first rate was the designation for the largest ships of the line.

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Fourth-rate

In 1603 all English warships with a complement of fewer than 160 men were known as 'small ships'.

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French frigate Junon (1786)

Junon was a 40-gun of the French Navy.

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George III

George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820.

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Hakluyt Society

The Hakluyt Society is a text publication society, founded in 1846 and based in London, England, which publishes scholarly editions of primary records of historic voyages, travels and other geographical material.

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Hedge school

Hedge schools (Irish names include scoil chois claí, scoil ghairid and scoil scairte) were small informal secret and illegal schools, particularly in 18th-century Ireland, teaching the rudiments of religious education to children of 'non-conforming' faiths (Catholic and Presbyterian).

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History of Antarctica

The history of Antarctica emerges from early Western theories of a vast continent, known as Terra Australis, believed to exist in the far south of the globe.

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Impressment

Impressment, colloquially "the press" or the "press gang", is the forced conscription of men into a military force, especially a naval force, via intimidation and physical coercion, conducted by an organized group (hence "gang").

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James Cook

Captain James Cook (– 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular. Edward Bransfield and James Cook are explorers of Antarctica.

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James Weddell

James Weddell (24 August 1787 – 9 September 1834) was a British sailor, navigator and seal hunter who in February 1823 sailed to latitude of 74° 15′ S—a record 7.69 degrees or 532 statute miles south of the Antarctic Circle—and into a region of the Southern Ocean that later became known as the Weddell Sea. Edward Bransfield and James Weddell are explorers of Antarctica.

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Joinville Island group

Joinville Island group is a group of antarctic islands, lying off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which Joinville Island group is separated by the Antarctic Sound.

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Jules Dumont d'Urville

Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (23 May 1790 – 8 May 1842) was a French explorer and naval officer who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica.

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King George Island (South Shetland Islands)

King George Island (Argentinian Spanish: Isla 25 de Mayo, Chilean Spanish: Isla Rey Jorge, Russian: Ватерло́о Vaterloo) is the largest of the South Shetland Islands, lying off the coast of Antarctica in the Southern Ocean.

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Kingdom of Ireland

The Kingdom of Ireland (Ríoghacht Éireann; Ríocht na hÉireann) was a dependent territory of England and then of Great Britain from 1542 to the end of 1800.

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Livingston Island

Livingston Island (Russian name Smolensk) is an Antarctic island in the Southern Ocean, part of the South Shetlands Archipelago, a group of Antarctic islands north of the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Maritime pilot

A maritime pilot, marine pilot, harbor pilot, port pilot, ship pilot, or simply pilot, is a mariner who has specific knowledge of an often dangerous or congested waterway, such as harbors or river mouths.

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Master (naval)

The master, or sailing master, is a historical rank for a naval officer trained in and responsible for the navigation of a sailing vessel.

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Master's mate

Master's mate is an obsolete rating which was used by the Royal Navy, United States Navy and merchant services in both countries for a senior petty officer who assisted the master.

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Midshipman

A midshipman is an officer of the lowest rank in the Royal Navy, United States Navy, and many Commonwealth navies.

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Mount Bransfield

Mount Bransfield is a prominent conical-topped, ice-covered mountain, high, rising southwest of Cape Dubouzet at the northeast tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Nathaniel Palmer

Nathaniel Brown Palmer (August 8, 1799 – June 21, 1877) was an American seal hunter, explorer, sailing captain, and ship designer. Edward Bransfield and Nathaniel Palmer are explorers of Antarctica.

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Northwest Passage

The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea lane between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Arctic Archipelago of Canada.

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Pacific Station

The Pacific Station was created in 1837 as one of the geographical military formations into which the Royal Navy divided its worldwide responsibilities.

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Penal laws (Ireland)

In Ireland, the penal laws (Na Péindlíthe) were a series of legal disabilities imposed in the seventeenth, and early eighteenth, centuries on the kingdom's Roman Catholic majority and, to a lesser degree, on Protestant "Dissenters".

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Roland Huntford

Roland Huntford (Horwitch;Race To The Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott's Antarctic Quest, Ranulph Fiennes, Hyperion, 2004, p. 387 born 1927) is an author, principally of biographies of Polar explorers.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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RRS Bransfield

RRS Bransfield was an ice-strengthened cargo vessel, purpose-built for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

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Second master

Second master (Second-maître) is a military rank used in multiple Francophone navies across the world as well as a former rating in the Royal Navy.

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Ship of the line

A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century.

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Sloop-of-war

During the 18th and 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship of the British Royal Navy with a single gun deck that carried up to 18 guns.

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South Shetland Islands

The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of.

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Tangra Mountains

Tangra Mountains (in Bulgarian Тангра планина, 'Tangra planina' \'tan-gra pla-ni-'na\) form the principal mountain range of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

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Taunton

Taunton is the county town of Somerset, England.

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The Literary Gazette

The Literary Gazette was a British literary magazine, established in London in 1817 with its full title being The Literary Gazette, and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences.

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Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula is the northernmost part of the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Valparaíso

Valparaíso is a major city, commune, seaport and naval base facility in Valparaíso Region, Chile.

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William Edward Parry

Sir William Edward Parry (19 December 1790 – 8 July 1855) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for his 1819–1820 expedition through the Parry Channel, probably the most successful in the long quest for the Northwest Passage, until it was finally negotiated by Roald Amundsen in 1906.

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William Henry Shirreff

William Henry Shirreff (baptised 4 April 1785 – 1 December 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer, captain of,,, and.

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William Smith (mariner)

William Smith (c. 1790–1847) was an English captain born in Blyth, Northumberland, who discovered the South Shetland Islands, an archipelago off the Graham Land in Antarctica. Edward Bransfield and William Smith (mariner) are explorers of Antarctica.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bransfield

, Sloop-of-war, South Shetland Islands, Tangra Mountains, Taunton, The Literary Gazette, Trinity Peninsula, Valparaíso, William Edward Parry, William Henry Shirreff, William Smith (mariner).

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See also

19th-century Irish explorers

Irish Antarctic explorers

Irish sailors in the Royal Navy

People from Midleton

Royal Navy personnel of the Bombardment of Algiers (1816)

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