
Museum catalogue: Antarctic Collection
Pennant
Details
Accession no.: | Y: 97/1/4 | ||||||||||
Object name: | Pennant | ||||||||||
Title: | Pennant | ||||||||||
Description: | A pennant flown aboard HMS Erebus during the British Naval Expedition 1839-43 (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror) to the Antarctic commanded by James Clark Ross. | ||||||||||
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Number of items: | 1 | ||||||||||
Full description: |
A very long textile pennant. The left part consists of a red cross on a white background, made of separate pieces of cloth stitched together. The right part consists of a long tapering tale made of a single length of red textile, torn at the end. There is a wooden rod stitched inside a loop on the left side of the pennant. |
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