Winter quarters of HM ships Resolute and Intrepid 53 & 54 in the pack, there -56 Faht.

• Main Author: Mecham, George Frederick, artist.
• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: 1856
• Subjects: Ships > British > 1850-1860; Ice > 1850-1860; Winter > 1850-1860; Viscount Melville Sound (Nunavut and N.W.T.) > 1850-1860; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Nunavut; Canada; Brooklyn; Melville Sound; Viscount Melville Sound; Beechey Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.22820

Drawing shows the British ships Resolute and Intrepid embedded in the ice pack in Melville Sound near the Arctic Ocean in Canada. The British lived in the ships during the winter of 1853 and 1854 and in the summer of 1854 abandoned them and camped on Beechey Island before setting sail for England in...