![]() Daedalus encountered what its captain, P. On August 6, 1848, at about 5 pm, the frigate H.M.S. The Daedalus animal can finally be identified. ![]() There is no doubt that something remarkable passed by that ship on an August afternoon, and the Daedalus case has remained one of the most famous and puzzling maritime mysteries. We have the advantage today of greater knowledge of large marine vertebrates than was available at the time, and we have two important contemporary drawings by a Daedalus witness that were not published until 1997. ![]() A particularly influential sighting occurred from the British naval vessel Daedalus in 1848. During the nineteenth century, various supposed sightings of the creature-mainly in the Atlantic-lent it some public and scientific credibility as a real animal (Heuvelmans 1968). ![]() The sea serpent was once little more than a monster of Norwegian folklore. This was produced by a professional artist with advice from Captain M’Quhae.įigure 2: Two more drawings (“A” above and “B” below) by M’Quhae’s artist, as as published in The Illustrated London News. Figure 1: An iconic drawing of the Daedalus animal, as published in The Illustrated London News. ![]()
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