| Summary: | One of Canada's seafaring heroes, Captain Robert H. 'Bob' Bartlett, conducted more than 40 voyages in the far North and sailed over 200,000 miles in Arctic waters. Bartlett navigated the ship 'Roosevelt' around 133 miles of the pole to participate in Peary's successful attempt to reach the North Pole. Crucial to many arctic endeavors, Bartlett is well-known for his rescue undertakings when the 'Karluk' was crushed in the Arctic ice in 1913. This 1928 photograph of Bartlett's sailing vessel was taken during a visit to Seattle later in his career. Handwritten on image: R H Bartlett Boat. Caption information source: National Library of Canada, Heroes of Lore and Yore. Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): April 23, 1928. 1 glass negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in.
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