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First Arctic Medal, presented to Benjamin Bradshaw (1819-1908), Boatswain's Mate in HMS Resolute 1850-51.
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First Arctic Medal, presented to Benjamin Bradshaw (1819-1908), Boatswain's Mate in HMS Resolute 1850-51.
HMS Assistance in the Ice by Robert Sewell Robins 1855
In 1850-51, Captain Erasmus Ommanney commanded HMS Assistance in search of John Franklin and his lost Crew, Ommanney called at Cape York in Greenland where he picked up a young Inuit guide called Kallihirua who led the ship north to check on a rumoured massacre of Franklin's men. This proved false and Assistance wintered in the ice before returning to England in autumn 1851