ARCTIC FRANKLIN SEARCH VOYAGE OF HMS RESOLUTE 1857 M\'DOUGALL 1st


ARCTIC FRANKLIN SEARCH VOYAGE OF HMS RESOLUTE 1857 M\'DOUGALL 1st

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ARCTIC FRANKLIN SEARCH VOYAGE OF HMS RESOLUTE 1857 M\'DOUGALL 1st:
$750.00



With 8 chromolithograph plates
THE EVENTFUL VOYAGE OF H.M. DISCOVERY SHIP \"RESOLUTE\" TO THE ARCTIC REGIONS IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN AND THE MISSING CREWS OF H.M. DISCOVERY SHIPS \"EREBUS\" & \"TERROR,\" 1852, 1853, 1854.
TO WHICH IS ADDED AN ACCOUNT OF HER BEING FALLEN IN WITH BY AN AMERICAN WHALER AFTER HER ABANDONMENT IN BARROW STRAITS, AND OF HER PRESENTATION TO QUEEN VICTORIA BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES.By George F. M\'Dougall
First Edition
Published in London by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1857Contents
* Original brick-red cloth with decorative borders in blind to both boards, ship gilt to front board
* xl, 530 Pages
* 8 color lithograph plates with tissue guards
* 24 woodcuts in text
* Fold-out map frontispieceCondition
* Professionally re-cased with new matching cloth spine and original pale yellow endpapers preserved, title lettered in gold to black leather spine label. Some old soil to original cloth; tide lines to back of plates notvery noticeable on image side; tide lines in text are noticeable from title page up to page 50 but not veryobtrusive and hardly visible thereafter; some small foxy spots to pages here and there; map is very good withno tears; top edge of text block is dusted. Contemporary owner name at head of title page and one ondedication page. A copy with several flaws, but still about very good, tight, square, complete, inner
hinges fine, and the plates look beautiful in spite of the tide lines. A bargain for Franklin search
narratives, very good to fine copies of which fetch upwards of $5000.Description
First-hand account of Sir Edward Belcher\'s Franklin search expedition of 1852-54 by M\'Dougall, the second master on board Resolute, which was one of the most celebrated ships in the British arctic line. She had the distinction of being the only ship whose timbers were used to build a desk for the White House.* * *
Belcher left England in 1852 in the Assistance. Capt. Henry Kellett commanded the Resolute with M\'Dougall as master. Lt. F. L. McClintock commanded the Intrepid, and Sherard Osborn the Pioneer. The North Star was the supply vessel. The expedition sailed to Lancaster Sound and following the open leads in the ice reached Barrow Strait. Belcher and Osborn continued up Wellington Channel looking for traces of Franklin\'s ships and later returned to Barrow Strait without finding a thing. Meanwhile Kellett and McClintock headed westward in Resolute and Intrepid and wintered at Dealy Island by the south shore of Melville Island. The sledging campaign opened in the spring of 1853 as parties were sent out to lay depots and hunt muskoxen on Melville Island. The main thrust to the westward was under McClintock and Lt. Mecham, who, in examining Parry\'s Sandstone Rock found a record left by Capt. McCLure of the Investigator stating his ship was stuck in the ice on the north side of Banks Island, having reached that point from Bering Strait. Lt. Pim crossed the strait to Banks Island and McCLure and his men were saved from a fate similar to Franklin\'s. All arived on board Resolute in due time and McClure was given credit for having completed a Northwest Passage, on foot, from the opposite direction; though it was not the Northwest Passage. In the spring of 1854 the ships were frozen in the ice near Beechey Island, except Resolute, which was trapped in Viscount Melville Sound. When Belcher ordered the abandonment of all vessels, Kellett, McClintock, McCLure and their men had a long walk to the overburdened North Star in which all the crews took refuge. The pressure on the North Star was relieved by the timely arrival of the the supply ships Phoenix and Talbot, and in these three vessels the last of the Goverment-sponsored Franklin searching expeditions returned to England. The ships left behind were crushed and sunk, but the Resolute remained afloat and drifted in the ice for 1,200 miles to Davis Strait where she was sighted off Cape Walsingham, Baffin Island, by Capt. James Buddington of the American whaler George Henry and towed all the way to New London, Connecticut. The U.S. Government purchased the Resolute and had her restored and fitted out for a return voyage to England under Capt. Hartstene, who, amidst great ceremony, presented her to Queen Victoria. In 1879 the Resolute was broken up and part of her timbers were fashioned into a desk that was presented to Pres. Rutherford B. Hayes in gratitude for U.S. participation in the Franklin Search. The Resolute desk is still in the Oval Office, a reminder to U.S. presidents of the bygone days of arctic exploration and the search for the Northwest Passage.offerding, Payment and Shipping Info
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