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Description: | A relic of Sir John Franklin's last expedition 1845-48. The metal lid of a powder case, found by Lieutenant W.R. Hobson at an abandoned camp site at Cape Felix, King William Island on 25 May 1859. It was collected by the McClintock Search Expedition 1857-59 (they left the rest of the case behind). The lid is marked with the initials ?BO? (Board of Ordinance) and a broad arrow.
The camp site was occupied by about twelve officers and men from the Franklin expedition during the summer of 1847; they lived in three small tents. They were probably engaged in surveying, scientific work or hunting while the expeditions ships remained trapped in the ice. The site was apparently abandoned in a hurry; Hobson found the tents flattened with blankets and bear skins underneath. They had been held up by boarding pikes, the heads of which had been twisted off their poles. Hobson thought the staffs had been used for firewood. He concluded that, as the party had left behind so much of their equipment, they had probably gone back to the ships.
caption: Powder case lid- top
caption: Powder case lid- underside | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | lids William Robert McClintock Expedition Fox 1855 Francis Leopold Hobson Franklin Royal Naval Museum John McClintock | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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