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+Description: The US Navy sloop USS Peacock was stuck in the ice in January 1840, shortly after the first confirmed sighting of the Antarctic continent by a US Navy ship. She was lost on the Columbia river in July 1841.
-English: The US Navy sloop USS Peacock was stuck in the ice in January 1840, shortly after the first confirmed sighting of the Antarctic continent by a US Navy ship. She was lost on the Columbia river in July 1841.
-Date
+Date: 1845
-Source 	plate facing page 302, volume 2, Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. By Charles Wilkes, publisher 1845 http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~32597~1151966:Peacock-in-contact-with-ice-berg--A?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No&qvq=q:peacock;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=3&trs=5#
-Author 	Alfred Agate, although in pencil "Charles Guillou|Guillou appears
+Source: Wikimedia Commons
+[[Category:Pictures of Ships]]