OMG look how well preserved that is! Thanks for the pik!
Wow. So fascinating that it’s so preserved.
Its been a while since I studied this, but if I remember right, the cat went down with the ship.
What a picture. I’m an icebreaker sailor, and it amazes me anyone attempted any arctic/antarctic passages in wooden ships.
I’ve personally experienced what a 20 knot onshore breeze and a multiyear iceflow can do to a ship. We’d break ice backing and ramming all morning (with the daylight hours waning every day) and pass Dead Horse to our left. We’d secure from ice ops, wake up and Dead Horse is five degrees off our port bow.
We did that for a week straight before deciding we should take our chances and go clockwise around North America through the NW Passage.