The Jeannette Monument is the largest monument in the United States Naval Academy Cemetery. It memorializes the 1881 loss of USS Jeannette while exploring the Arctic ice. Jeannette, with a crew of 33, collapsed and sank … See more

Ten of the lost twelve from DeLong's boat were discovered by Melville on 23 March 1882, and interred on the Lena Delta. Their bodies were marked by a stone cairn constructed locally, then later to be returned to the United States in 1884. The Jeanette … See more

Inscribed into the cross of the Jeannette cairn:
IN MEMORY OF 12 OF THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE ARCTIC STEAMER "JEANNETTE" WHO DIED OF STARVATION IN THE LENA DELTA, OCTOBER, 1881. … See more

On the cemetery's Cushing Road side:
COMMEMORATIVE of the heroic officers and men of the UNITED STATES NAVY who perished in the … See more

The tomb or mausoleum in which the bodies were deposited was constructed of the lumber of a broken-up flatboat. First a cross was made from timbers one foot square, hewn out of logs which had drifted down the river, and erected on the crest of the hill. It was … See more

• A History of the Navy in 100 Objects. "Object #29: The Jeannette Expedition Monument" (video). U.S. Naval Academy Museum. Retrieved 15 May 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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