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Thomas Gerstle Abernethy (* 16. Mai 1903 in Eupora, Webster County, Mississippi; † 11. Juni 1998 in Jackson, Mississippi) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker. Er vertrat den Bundesstaat Mississippi im Repräsentantenhaus der Vereinigten Staaten .
Thomas Gerstle Abernethy (May 16, 1903 – June 11, 1998) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Mississippi for 15 terms from 1943 to 1973.
- Margaret Gail A. Doty, Thomas G. Abernethy Jr., and Alice Kay A. Martin.
- Democratic
- Alice Lamb Abernethy
- Aaron L. Ford
Thomas Abernethy may refer to. Thomas Abernethy (explorer) (1803–1860), Scottish seafarer, gunner in the Royal Navy, and polar explorer. Thomas Perkins Abernethy (1890–1975), American historian of early American history. Thomas Abernethy (politician) (1903–1998), American politician.
- Early and Personal Life
- Arctic with Parry, 1824–1827
- Arctic, with John Ross, 1829–1833
- Antarctica with James Ross, 1839–1843
- Searches For John Franklin's Lost Expedition Party
- Death, Assessments and Legacy
- References
- Further Reading
Thomas Abernethy was born in 1803[note 1] at Longside in northeast Scotland. While he was a child, his family moved to Peterhead, a nearby port. His parents were James Abernethy, a stonemason, and Isabella Robertson. Thomas had an elder sister, Ann, who was born in 1801, and twin brothers, James and William, who were both born in 1816. Thomas went ...
Northwest Passage
Sir William Parry is known for many Arctic naval expeditions, particularly in trying to discover a route for a Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.For his third attempt, in 1824, Parry took the vessels HMS Fury, under Henry Hoppner and HMS Hecla, with Parry himself in command, and Abernethy signed on as one of the 75-strong Hecla crew. He was an able seaman, just one rank above ordinary seaman in the Royal Navy. Leaving London in May 1824, the expedition reached Lancaste...
Towards North Pole
In 1827 Parry again took HMS Hecla, this time in an attempt to reach the North Pole using small boats and sledges. Second in command was James Clark Rossand assistant surgeon was Robert McCormick. Abernethy took part, now promoted to the rank of gunnery petty officer.[note 4] Departing London in March 1827, they sailed to Spitsbergen where they found a safe anchorage at Sorgfjorden, Ny-Friesland, in the far north. Abernethy participated in the expedition north, but, beset by difficulties, the...
Northwest Passage
In 1829, Sir John Ross led another Northwest Passage expedition and appointed Abernethy as second mate to join the crew of Victory, a sailing ship and steam paddle steamer of 30 horsepower. James Clark Ross, Ross's nephew, was second-in-command. By October they had reached Prince Regent Inlet and then far south into the Gulf of Boothiawhere they anchored for the winter at Felix Harbour. They formed good relations with the local Inuit who drew knowledgeable maps of the region[note 5] which sho...
North Magnetic Pole
On 15 May 1831 Abernethy was on James Ross's team of six which attempted to reach the North Magnetic Pole. They were equipped with a dip circle and on 1 July they reached WikiMiniAtlas70°5′17″N 96°46′45″W / 70.08806°N 96.77917°W / 70.08806; -96.77917 where the angle of dip was 89°59′. For two days they retested using different observers at slightly different locations attaining an average 89°59′28″ so discovering a slight daily change in the position of the magnetic pole. This was the firs...
Return home
A three-strong advance party, including Abernethy, located the scene of Fury's wreckage and the entire expedition was able to use the stores and boats left there and build a substantial shelter, "Somerset House". In July Prince Regent Inlet cleared of ice but by August they found Lancaster Sound completely blocked so they had to return to Fury Beach for the next winter in Somerset House. On 14 August 1833 Abernethy spotted an open lead in the sea ice[note 6] and so they set off rowing at 4:00...
Ross Sea, 1839–1841
With James Ross in command of the ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, three-mast barques, Abernethy set off on a scientific expedition to Antarctica in 1839, supported by the Royal Society. Joseph Hooker, later Sir Joseph but then a young naturalist, took part but because it was a naval expedition he had to be appointed as assistant surgeon. Throughout the expedition a major aim was to take magnetic readings at various ports of call starting with Madeira, Tenerife, Cape Verde, Trinidad, St Helen...
Weddell Sea, 1841–1843
For more magnetic readings, they left for Sydney in July 1841 continuing to New Zealand's Bay of Islands. In November they set sail south,this time heading south along 146°W hoping to again reach the Ross Ice Shelf. This time they became trapped in the pack ice and it took 58 days to reach through 800 miles of pack to open water. They sighted what became Edward VII Land and, reaching their new furthest south of 78°9′S, they again saw the Ice Shelf. With the sea beginning to freeze solid, Ross...
With James Ross, 1848–1849
In 1845 Sir John Franklin commanded an expedition along with Francis Crozier who had been on Ross's Antarctic expedition, again using Erebus and Terror, and again trying to find a Northwest Passage. In what became known as Franklin's lost expedition, both ships were eventually lost and 129 men were to die but Abernethy had not been included in the vast crew. By 1847 fears developed over what had happened so in 1848 three expeditions set off to search for Franklin, the main one commanded by Ja...
With John Ross, 1850–1851
The Admiralty offered rewards for finding (or even hearing news of) Franklin sothe 73-year-old John Ross set off with Felix, a steam schooner, with Abernethy as master of the vessel.At this time he was describing Abernethy as "my old shipmate". Ross sought Abernethy's advice about crew which led to many of Abernethy's relatives being signed on.Felix left Ayr on 20 May 1850 but at Loch Ryan in a near mutiny many of the crew had gone ashore and got drunk so Ross had to leave eight of them behin...
With Edward Inglefield, 1852
In 1852, succumbing to public pressure, the Admiralty dispatched five search vessels on a new expedition and Lady Franklin funded a sixth vessel, her own steam yacht Isabel, a two-masted brigantine, under Edward Inglefield. Abernethy was ice master and second in command of Isabel. Contrary to instructions Inglefield explored around Baffin Bay and reached Wolstenholme Bay, near Cape York, where Franklin and his men had supposedly been murdered. However, they found nothing suspicious buried in...
For most of Abernethy's married life he had been away at sea. In 1854 his wife Barbara died, aged 44, with her husband at her side, and Abernethy returned to live in Peterhead. In 1857 he married Rebecca Young but he was only to live for another three years. He died of "ulcersation of the stomach" on 13 April 1860 and his wife erected a gravestone ...
Works cited
1. Buchan, Alex R (2016). "A Grand Polar Veteran"; Thomas Abernethy of Peterhead. Buchan Field Club. ISBN 978-0-9512736-5-4. 2. McCormick, Robert (1884). Voyages of discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic seas and round the world. Volume II. London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington. 3. Maddison, Ben (2015). Class and Colonialism in Antarctic Exploration, 1750–1920. Routledge. ISBN 9781317319412. 4. Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert) (1921). The lands of silence, a history of Arctic an...
Hewitson, David (September 2006). "Book of the Month September 2006, John Ross, Narrative of a second voyage in search of a north-west Passage". special.lib.gla.ac.uk. Glasgow University Library Sp...Huish, Robert (1835). The last voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross, R.N. Knt. to the Arctic regions. John Saunders, London.Inglefield, Edward Augustus; Dickie, George; Sutherland, Peter Cormack (1853). A summer search for Sir John Franklin : with a peep into the polar basin. London: T. Harrison.Markham, Clements R. (1921). The lands of silence, a history of Arctic and Antarctic exploration. Cambridge, Univ. Press.Thomas Gerstle Abernethy (* 16. Mai 1903 in Eupora, Webster County, Mississippi; † 11. Juni 1998 in Jackson, Mississippi) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker. Er vertrat den Bundesstaat Mississippi im Repräsentantenhaus der Vereinigten Staaten.
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