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See also:OSBORN, SHERARD (1822—1875) , See also:English See also:admiral and See also:Arctic explorer, the son of an See also:Indian See also:army officer, was See also:born on the 25th of See also:April 1822. Entering the See also:navy as a first-class volunteer in 1837, he was entrusted in 1838 with the command of a gunboat at the attack on Kedah in the See also:Malay See also:Peninsula, and was See also:present at the reduction of See also:Canton in 1841, and at the See also:capture of the batteries of Woosung in 1842. From 1844 till 1848 he was gunnery See also:mate and See also:lieutenant in the See also:flag-See also:ship of See also:Sir See also:George See also:Seymour in the Pacific. He took a prominent See also:part in 1849 in advocatinga new See also:search expedition for Sir See also:John See also:Franklin, and in 1850 was appointed to the command of the See also:steam-See also:tender " See also:Pioneer " in the Arctic expedition under See also:Captain See also:Austin, in the course of which he performed (1851) a remarkable sledge-See also:journey to the western extremity of See also:Prince of See also:Wales See also:Island. He published an See also:account of this voyage, entitled Stray Leaves from an Arctic See also:Journal (1852), and was promoted to the See also:rank of See also:commander shortly afterwards. In the new expedition (1852—1854) under Sir See also:Edward See also:Belcher he again took part as commander of the " Pioneer." In 1856 he published the See also:journals of Captain See also:Robert M'Clure, giving a narrative of the See also:discovery of the See also:North-See also:West Passage. See also:Early in 1855 he was called to active service in connexion with the See also:Crimean See also:War, and being promoted to See also:post-rank in See also:August of that See also:year was appointed to the " See also:Medusa," in which he commanded the See also:Sea of Azoff See also:squadron until the conclusion of the war. For these services he received the C.B., the See also:Cross of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour, and the See also:Medjidie of the See also:fourth class. As commander of the " Furious " he took a prominent part in the operations of the second See also:Chinese War, and performed a piece of difficult and intricate See also:navigation in taking his ship 600 m. up the Yangtse-kiang to See also:Hankow (1858). He returned to See also:England in broken See also:health in 1859, and at this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time contributed a number of articles on See also:naval and Chinese topics to See also:Blackwood's See also:Magazine, and wrote The Career, Last Voyage and See also:Fate of Sir John Franklin (1860). In 1861 he commanded the " See also:Donegal" in the Gulf of See also:Mexico during the trouble there, and in 1862 undertook the command of a squadron fitted out by the Chinese See also:government for the suppression of piracy on the See also:coast of See also:China; but owing to the non-fulfilment of the See also:condition that he should receive orders from the imperial government only, he threw up the See also:appointment. In 1864 he was appointed to the command of the " Royal See also:Sovereign " in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to test the See also:turret See also:system of ship-See also:building, to which this See also:vessel had been adapted. In 1865 he became See also:agent to the See also:Great Indian Peninsula Railway See also:Company, and two years later managing di-See also:rector of the See also:Telegraph Construction and See also:Maintenance Company. In 1873 he attained flag-rank. His See also:interest in Arctic exploration had never ceased, and in 1873 he induced Commander See also:Albert See also:Markham to undertake a summer voyage for the purpose of testing the conditions of See also:ice-navigation with the aid of steam, with the result that a new Arctic expedition, under Sir George See also:Nares, was determined upon. He was a member of the See also:committee which made the preparations for this expedition, and died a few days after it had sailed.
End of Article: OSBORN, SHERARD (1822—1875)
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