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Diana (1840 ship)
''Diana'' was a whaling ship built in 1840, in Bremen, Germany. She sailed out of Hull, England. In 1858 a steam engine was installed, making her the first steam-powered whaler to sail from Hull (''Tay'' from Dundee was the first ever, a year earlier).
==Trapped in the ice==
In 1866, while on a whaling expedition in Baffin Bay, ''Diana'' became frozen in the ice, where it was trapped for over six months. The ship's captain, 64-year-old〔http://www.graville.co.uk/Memorial_cfm.htm〕 John Gravill, and many of the crew died. The diary of the ship's doctor, Charles Edward Smith, was published in the book ''From the Deep of the Sea''. (ISBN 0-87021-932-4) There is a memorial fountain to ''Dianas return from the ice in the town of Lerwick in the Shetland Islands, as many of the crew originated from the islands and all the deceased except the captain were buried there. Charles Smith's services and heroism were recognised by the award of a set of surgical instruments from the Board of Trade.〔From the Deep of the Sea, Naval Institute Press (1977), page 271.〕 Captain Gravill's body was taken back to Hull, and his funeral was attended by an estimated fifteen thousand people.〔From the Deep of the Sea, Naval Institute Press (1977), page 272.〕
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