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Description: | These two parts of a telescope are relics of Sir John Franklin's last expedition in search of the North-West Passage, 1845-48. The brass barrel, which is severely crushed, has some remaining opieces of cord and leather at the eyepiece end. There would have been a draw tube, but this is now missing. It may have been one of the items obtained by the Schwatka expedition from Inuit on the Hayes River in May 1879. The objective lens assembly is made of silvered brass and has a sliding sun shade but no surviving lens cap. It was found near Ross Cairn, Point Victory, King William Island on 2nd June 1859 by the McClintock Search Expedition 1857-59.
Draw tube \&\ eye-piece from two different telescopes. Part dimensions l 112mm diam 53mm.
caption: Telescope tube
caption: Telescope barrel | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Achromatic lens telescope draw tubes Fox 1855 Portsmouth Royal Naval Museum | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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