Franklin search chart C.6. CHART SHEWING THE NORTH WEST PASSAGE DISCOVERED BY CAPT. R. LE M. MCCLURE, H.M. SHIP INVESTIGATOR: ALSO THE COAST EXPLORED IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN BY SIR JAS. ROSS. 1848 & 49. SIR JN. RICHARDSON. 1848 & 49. CAPT. MCCLURE. 1850. CAPT. AUSTEN. 1850. MR. PENNY. 1850. MR. RAE. 1851. MR. KENNEDY, & MR. BELLOT 1852. CAPT. INGLEFIELD. 1852 & 53. CAPT. SIR EDWD. BELCHER. 1852 & 53. LONDON: HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE, 14 OCTOBER 1853 980 x 500mm., lithographed chart after W.H. Fawekner, dissected and backed on linen, folding into a contemporary green cloth folder (260 x 140mm.), titled in gilt "McClure's North West Passage", slipcase THE FIRST CHART TO SHOW MCCLURE’S DISCOVERY OF THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. “In 1853 [Inglefield] went again to the Arctic in the Phoenix with relief to Sir Edward Belcher, and in October brought home the news of the discovery of the north-west passage by Robert John Le Mesurier McClure, for which he was promoted captain on 7 October 1853” (ODNB). The chart also has contemporary manuscript annotations at Cape Riley at the southern end of North Devon Island, which indicate the winter quarters of Franklin in 1845-1846 and of Captain Cheyne's expedition in the North Star in 1852-1853.
Franklin search chart C.6. CHART SHEWING THE NORTH WEST PASSAGE DISCOVERED BY CAPT. R. LE M. MCCLURE, H.M. SHIP INVESTIGATOR: ALSO THE COAST EXPLORED IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN BY SIR JAS. ROSS. 1848 & 49. SIR JN. RICHARDSON. 1848 & 49. CAPT. MCCLURE. 1850. CAPT. AUSTEN. 1850. MR. PENNY. 1850. MR. RAE. 1851. MR. KENNEDY, & MR. BELLOT 1852. CAPT. INGLEFIELD. 1852 & 53. CAPT. SIR EDWD. BELCHER. 1852 & 53. LONDON: HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE, 14 OCTOBER 1853 980 x 500mm., lithographed chart after W.H. Fawekner, dissected and backed on linen, folding into a contemporary green cloth folder (260 x 140mm.), titled in gilt "McClure's North West Passage", slipcase THE FIRST CHART TO SHOW MCCLURE’S DISCOVERY OF THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. “In 1853 [Inglefield] went again to the Arctic in the Phoenix with relief to Sir Edward Belcher, and in October brought home the news of the discovery of the north-west passage by Robert John Le Mesurier McClure, for which he was promoted captain on 7 October 1853” (ODNB). The chart also has contemporary manuscript annotations at Cape Riley at the southern end of North Devon Island, which indicate the winter quarters of Franklin in 1845-1846 and of Captain Cheyne's expedition in the North Star in 1852-1853.
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