The story goes that the Jenny became frozen in an ice-barrier of the Drake Passage in 1823, only to be rediscovered in 1840 by a whaling ship, the bodies aboard being preserved by the Antarctic cold.
[3][4][5][6][7][8][9] On the occasion of the McClintock Arctic expedition, the story of the schooner Jenny was remembered again: for example, in an anonymous article in an 1862 edition of Globus, a popular German geographical magazine.
[11] The ship was discovered frozen in ice in the Drake Passage by a Captain Brighton of the whaler Hope in September 1840.
[13] Dobson's poem places the discovery of the Jenny in 1860, adding 20 years to the period of entrapment.
[14] The poem speaks of her as a "ship caught in a bottle / [....] / Becalmed in Time and sealed with a cork of ice".