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Chipp Charles Wins (23.08.1848 - 12.09.1881)
Born in Kingston, New York, he was educated at the United States Naval Academy in Newport, Rhode Island and Annapolis, Maryland. After graduation in 1868, Chipp served on the Franklin steam frigate, the flagship of the European squadron. In 1871, he participated in the expedition of the United States to Korea, in 1873, he served on the ship "Juniata" when this ship was sent to the coast of Greenland to search for the ship "Polaris". On board the Juniata, Lt. George De-Long also served, who later became the commander of Chipp. After serving on several other ships, Chipp was ordered to serve in San Francisco as the executive director of the steamship Jeannette, whose captain was De Long. On this ship, DeLong was going to implement the plan to reach the North Pole, which he and the publisher of the New York Herald newspaper, James Gordon Bennett, had long been carrying out. In addition, it was necessary to try to find an expedition of N.-E. Nordenskiöld. De Long highly appreciated Chipp's business and human qualities. Here is how he wrote about him to his wife on July 8, 1879, just before he left for this voyage: “Chipp, as always was and always will be, calm and serious. He always has something to do, and he always does it in his quiet, steady and confident manner. He rarely smiles and speaks very little, but I know where he is and how reliable and faithful he is in all respects”. On June 8, 1879, “Jeannette” left San Francisco; on August 28, the Bering Strait passed. In the area of Kolyuchinskaya Bay, having landed, the sailors learned from the locals that the ship Nordensheld had been freed from ice in July and had gone to the Bering Strait. Now it was possible to begin the execution of the main task of the expedition, and De-Long headed north. In the Chukchi Sea near the Wrangel Island, “Jeannette” was covered with ice and after two years of drift in June 1881, crushed and sank. The crew was ready for such a development of events, having previously unloaded all that was necessary for the sleigh to go over the ice to the ice. By order of De-Long were clearly and strictly defined those personal belongings that you can take with each person. In addition, five sledges with general expedition equipment and food were prepared, as well as two boats, a whale whaleboat and a skiff in case of movement on water. By another order, the technology of movement was described in detail and the direction of movement was given - to the Novosibirsk Islands and further to the coast of Siberia. During this transition, three previously unknown islands were discovered, which the sailors named after Bennett, his mother Henriette and his vessel Jeannette. After reaching the ice edge, the sailors in the open water of the Laptev Sea set off in three boats towards the Siberian coast. The boats were commanded by De Long, Chipp and Chief Engineer George W. Melville. On September 12, 1881, the three boats were separated by a storm. Lieutenant Chipp's boat, in which, besides him, there were seven more people, no one else saw it, and no traces were found. Mountain on Henrietta Island. A mountain on the island of Kupreanof in the Alexander Archipelago in southeast Alaska. River in the north of Alaska. |
