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Description: | This lens in a brass mount is from a telescope and is either an eyepiece or one of the correcting lenses. It is a relic of Sir John Franklin's last expedition, 1845-48, and was found in an abandoned boat at Erebus Bay, King William Island, in May 1859 by the McClintock Search Expedition, 1857-59.
McClintock's party reached this site on the 30 May and discovered that Hobson had been there a few days before on 18 May. The boat they came across was 28 foot long and mounted on a heavy sledge. McClintock found it just above high tide mark pointing back in the direction of the ships and containing two skeletons and a large number of personal possessions, including 'one of the glasses of a telescope'.
F. L. McClintock 'The voyage of the Fox in the Arctic seas' p.367 'one of the glasses of a telescope.'
Formerly exhibited at the Royal Naval Museum, Greenwich, Franklin Room, case 2 number 35.
caption: Telescope eyepiece | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | McClintock Expedition Fox 1855 Francis Leopold telescope eyepieces Franklin Royal Naval Museum John McClintock | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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