Woodcut showing three scenes of the whaling ships lost when ice packed around them in the Arctic in the 1870s. At top, the ships surrounded by ice, captioned "The fleet inclosed [sic] in the ice-pack." Below, a camp made from whaling boats, with men all arounnd, on some floating ice, with icebergs in the background. Captioned "The camp on a grounded iceberg." Below, a bark surrounded by whaleships, with a camp in the background, sailing through the ice-studded waters. Captioned "Escape of the bark "Florence"."
In the lower margin is printed, "Arctic perils -- The recent disaster to the Whaling Fleet. From Sketches by Captain W. H. Kelley."
