Whaling bark George Henry of New London

• Main Author: Osbon (Creator)
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport 1860
• Subjects: Barks (Sailing ships); Whaling ships; Ships; Budington; Sidney O.; 1823-1888; George Henry (Bark); Arctic; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Obelisk
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5370

Starboard view of the whaling bark George Henry of New London at anchor, apparently in the Thames River off New London. Structures on the shore in the background include an obelisk that could be the Groton Monument. Infrastructure Livelihood Title supplied by cataloger. On mount, 9 x 11 1/2 in. Caption reads: "THE BARK "GEORGE HENRY," CAPTAIN SIDNEY O. BUDDINGTON [sic], OF NEW LONDON, WHICH STARTED FOR THE ARCTIC REGIONS ON TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1860." The bark George Henry was built in Waldoboro, Maine, 1841. She sailed on several whaling voyages out of New London. Whaling master James M. Buddington of Groton commanded the George Henry on an 1855-1856 voyage (with his son James W. serving as cabin boy), during which the abandoned British ship Resolute was recovered from the Arctic ice. Resolute had been part of an effort to search for members of the Franklin Expedition. Buddington's nephew Sidney O. Budington was master of the George Henry for the 1860-1862 Arctic expedition of Charles Francis Hall. Hall was also seeking to find the Franklin party. George Henry was lost in Hudson Bay, 1863.