Lieut., United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Commissioned And Warrant Officers Of The Navy Of The United States For The Year 1847, Page 108
Deaths
Lieutenant George M. Bache, 8 September, 1846, drowned at sea.
He was the great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin.
He was the grandson of Sarah Franklin Bache and Richard Bache.
He was the son of Richard Bache and Sophia Dallas Bache.
His brother, Alexander Dallas Bache, the second Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, is also buried in this cemetery.
On May 23, 1837 as George M. Bache, he married Eliza C Patterson at the District of Columbia.
They were the parents of three children.
He entered the United States Navy on January 1, 1825, he became a Lieut. March 3, 1835 and about 1838 was placed upon the Coast Survey.
In 1846 the United States Coast Survey began a project to study the Gulf Stream. This included measurements of temperatures, current velocity, depth of the water and chemistry of the water. The Coast Survey brig, Washington, under the command of Lieutenant George Mifflin Bache, was sent to conduct this study. Lieutenant Bache had been attached to the survey since 1838 and was one of its most senior naval officers.
The ship's log for 8 September 1846 reads:
At 11h. 10m., while in the act of letting go the starboard anchor, shipped a heavy sea amidships and on the quarter, sweeping the deck fore and aft and carrying with it the poop cabin and nearly all the officers and men. She partly righted; all succeeded in getting on board again, with the exception of George M. Bache, Lieutenant Commanding, James Dorsey, Benjamin Dolloff and John Fishbourne, quartermasters, Henry Schroeder, sail maker's mate, Francis Butler, Lewis Maynard, Thomas Stamford and William Wright, seamen and Peter Hanson and Edward Grennin, ordinary seamen. On regaining the wreck, manned the pumps, cut away the foremast and let go the starboard anchor. The brig gradually righted; the gale abating, she rode to her anchors.
The last sight of Lieutenant Bache was by a civilian pilot, Mr. Ricketson, who was accompanying the survey vessel. He was holding onto part of the cabin, then a tremendous wave crashed over him and he was never seen again. The surviving officers of the vessel praised him: During the trying scenes which preceded his loss, his coolness and decision were remarkable: everything that seamanlike skill could affect for the safety of the vessel he accomplished. He appeared never to think of himself, but, with his characteristic solicitude for the performance of his duty, only of preserving what related to that upon which he had been engaged during the cruise.
This monument in the Congressional Cemetery is of a broken mast inscribed with the names of Lieutenant Bache and the ten members of the crew who died in the hurricane September 8, 1846 off Cape Hatteras. They were among the first in the United States to lose their lives in the pursuit of scientific knowledge.
Commissioned And Warrant Officers Of The Navy Of The United States For The Year 1847, Page 108
Deaths
Lieutenant George M. Bache, 8 September, 1846, drowned at sea.
He was the great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin.
He was the grandson of Sarah Franklin Bache and Richard Bache.
He was the son of Richard Bache and Sophia Dallas Bache.
His brother, Alexander Dallas Bache, the second Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, is also buried in this cemetery.
On May 23, 1837 as George M. Bache, he married Eliza C Patterson at the District of Columbia.
They were the parents of three children.
He entered the United States Navy on January 1, 1825, he became a Lieut. March 3, 1835 and about 1838 was placed upon the Coast Survey.
In 1846 the United States Coast Survey began a project to study the Gulf Stream. This included measurements of temperatures, current velocity, depth of the water and chemistry of the water. The Coast Survey brig, Washington, under the command of Lieutenant George Mifflin Bache, was sent to conduct this study. Lieutenant Bache had been attached to the survey since 1838 and was one of its most senior naval officers.
The ship's log for 8 September 1846 reads:
At 11h. 10m., while in the act of letting go the starboard anchor, shipped a heavy sea amidships and on the quarter, sweeping the deck fore and aft and carrying with it the poop cabin and nearly all the officers and men. She partly righted; all succeeded in getting on board again, with the exception of George M. Bache, Lieutenant Commanding, James Dorsey, Benjamin Dolloff and John Fishbourne, quartermasters, Henry Schroeder, sail maker's mate, Francis Butler, Lewis Maynard, Thomas Stamford and William Wright, seamen and Peter Hanson and Edward Grennin, ordinary seamen. On regaining the wreck, manned the pumps, cut away the foremast and let go the starboard anchor. The brig gradually righted; the gale abating, she rode to her anchors.
The last sight of Lieutenant Bache was by a civilian pilot, Mr. Ricketson, who was accompanying the survey vessel. He was holding onto part of the cabin, then a tremendous wave crashed over him and he was never seen again. The surviving officers of the vessel praised him: During the trying scenes which preceded his loss, his coolness and decision were remarkable: everything that seamanlike skill could affect for the safety of the vessel he accomplished. He appeared never to think of himself, but, with his characteristic solicitude for the performance of his duty, only of preserving what related to that upon which he had been engaged during the cruise.
This monument in the Congressional Cemetery is of a broken mast inscribed with the names of Lieutenant Bache and the ten members of the crew who died in the hurricane September 8, 1846 off Cape Hatteras. They were among the first in the United States to lose their lives in the pursuit of scientific knowledge.
Lieut., United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Commissioned And Warrant Officers Of The Navy Of The United States For The Year 1847, Page 108
Deaths
Lieutenant George M. Bache, 8 September, 1846, drowned at sea.
He was the great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin.
He was the grandson of Sarah Franklin Bache and Richard Bache.
He was the son of Richard Bache and Sophia Dallas Bache.
His brother, Alexander Dallas Bache, the second Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, is also buried in this cemetery.
On May 23, 1837 as George M. Bache, he married Eliza C Patterson at the District of Columbia.
They were the parents of three children.
He entered the United States Navy on January 1, 1825, he became a Lieut. March 3, 1835 and about 1838 was placed upon the Coast Survey.
In 1846 the United States Coast Survey began a project to study the Gulf Stream. This included measurements of temperatures, current velocity, depth of the water and chemistry of the water. The Coast Survey brig, Washington, under the command of Lieutenant George Mifflin Bache, was sent to conduct this study. Lieutenant Bache had been attached to the survey since 1838 and was one of its most senior naval officers.
The ship's log for 8 September 1846 reads:
At 11h. 10m., while in the act of letting go the starboard anchor, shipped a heavy sea amidships and on the quarter, sweeping the deck fore and aft and carrying with it the poop cabin and nearly all the officers and men. She partly righted; all succeeded in getting on board again, with the exception of George M. Bache, Lieutenant Commanding, James Dorsey, Benjamin Dolloff and John Fishbourne, quartermasters, Henry Schroeder, sail maker's mate, Francis Butler, Lewis Maynard, Thomas Stamford and William Wright, seamen and Peter Hanson and Edward Grennin, ordinary seamen. On regaining the wreck, manned the pumps, cut away the foremast and let go the starboard anchor. The brig gradually righted; the gale abating, she rode to her anchors.
The last sight of Lieutenant Bache was by a civilian pilot, Mr. Ricketson, who was accompanying the survey vessel. He was holding onto part of the cabin, then a tremendous wave crashed over him and he was never seen again. The surviving officers of the vessel praised him: During the trying scenes which preceded his loss, his coolness and decision were remarkable: everything that seamanlike skill could affect for the safety of the vessel he accomplished. He appeared never to think of himself, but, with his characteristic solicitude for the performance of his duty, only of preserving what related to that upon which he had been engaged during the cruise.
This monument in the Congressional Cemetery is of a broken mast inscribed with the names of Lieutenant Bache and the ten members of the crew who died in the hurricane September 8, 1846 off Cape Hatteras. They were among the first in the United States to lose their lives in the pursuit of scientific knowledge.
Commissioned And Warrant Officers Of The Navy Of The United States For The Year 1847, Page 108
Deaths
Lieutenant George M. Bache, 8 September, 1846, drowned at sea.
He was the great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin.
He was the grandson of Sarah Franklin Bache and Richard Bache.
He was the son of Richard Bache and Sophia Dallas Bache.
His brother, Alexander Dallas Bache, the second Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, is also buried in this cemetery.
On May 23, 1837 as George M. Bache, he married Eliza C Patterson at the District of Columbia.
They were the parents of three children.
He entered the United States Navy on January 1, 1825, he became a Lieut. March 3, 1835 and about 1838 was placed upon the Coast Survey.
In 1846 the United States Coast Survey began a project to study the Gulf Stream. This included measurements of temperatures, current velocity, depth of the water and chemistry of the water. The Coast Survey brig, Washington, under the command of Lieutenant George Mifflin Bache, was sent to conduct this study. Lieutenant Bache had been attached to the survey since 1838 and was one of its most senior naval officers.
The ship's log for 8 September 1846 reads:
At 11h. 10m., while in the act of letting go the starboard anchor, shipped a heavy sea amidships and on the quarter, sweeping the deck fore and aft and carrying with it the poop cabin and nearly all the officers and men. She partly righted; all succeeded in getting on board again, with the exception of George M. Bache, Lieutenant Commanding, James Dorsey, Benjamin Dolloff and John Fishbourne, quartermasters, Henry Schroeder, sail maker's mate, Francis Butler, Lewis Maynard, Thomas Stamford and William Wright, seamen and Peter Hanson and Edward Grennin, ordinary seamen. On regaining the wreck, manned the pumps, cut away the foremast and let go the starboard anchor. The brig gradually righted; the gale abating, she rode to her anchors.
The last sight of Lieutenant Bache was by a civilian pilot, Mr. Ricketson, who was accompanying the survey vessel. He was holding onto part of the cabin, then a tremendous wave crashed over him and he was never seen again. The surviving officers of the vessel praised him: During the trying scenes which preceded his loss, his coolness and decision were remarkable: everything that seamanlike skill could affect for the safety of the vessel he accomplished. He appeared never to think of himself, but, with his characteristic solicitude for the performance of his duty, only of preserving what related to that upon which he had been engaged during the cruise.
This monument in the Congressional Cemetery is of a broken mast inscribed with the names of Lieutenant Bache and the ten members of the crew who died in the hurricane September 8, 1846 off Cape Hatteras. They were among the first in the United States to lose their lives in the pursuit of scientific knowledge.
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The Lieutenant George Mifflin Bache and Crew Cenotaph.
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