HMS Resolute (1850)

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An etching of HMS Resolute from December 1856.
Career (UK)
Builder:
Green's of Blackwall
Acquired:
1850
Fate:
1854, left locked in Arctic ice[1]
Career (US)
Acquired:
1855, found adrift in ice[1]
Fate:
1856, Restored and returned to UK as a gift[1]
Career (UK)
Acquired:
1856[1]
Struck:
1879[1]
Fate:
Broken up[1]
General characteristics
Tons burthen:
424 tons
Length:
115feet (35m)
Beam:
28.5feet (8.7m)
Sail plan:
3-masted Barque[1]
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Resolute.
HMS Resolute was a mid-19th century barque-rigged ship of the British Royal Navy, specially outfitted for Arctic exploration. Resolute became trapped in the ice and was abandoned. Recovered by an American whaler, she was returned to Queen Victoria in 1856.
Contents
1 History
2 The Resolute desks
3 HMS Resolute in popular media
4 See also
5 References
6 Further reading
7 External links
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History
Originally a Tyne built vessel named Ptarmigan, Resolute was purchased by the British Government in February 1850 and commissioned into the Royal Navy originally as HMS Refuge, but was renamed HMS Resolute a month later. The ship was fitted for Arctic service by Green's of Blackwall (Thames), with especially strong timbers, an internal heating system, and a polar bear as a figurehead.[1]
In 1852, HMS Resolute was part of a four-ship expedition under Edward Belcher, investigating the fate of the John Franklin expedition, which had searched for the Northwest Passage to Asia. Resolute was one of five ships crossing Baffin Bay westward in June while two more ships explored the Northwest Passage eastward from Alaska.[1] Each ship took a different route to search for evidence of Frankin's lost ships Erebus and Terror.[1] Resolute became lodged in the Arctic ice and wintered off Dealy Island near the north shore of Viscount Melville Sound.[1] An August 1853 storm moved the ice flows with the entrapped Resolute eastward from the Dealy Island base.[1] Resolute was still beset by ice in the spring of 1854.[1] In May Captain Keller stowed the sails below, caulked down the hatches, and left Resolute locked in ice to lead his men in a hard march across the ice to reach other ships of the expedition.[1] The British government announced in The London Gazette that Resolute was still Her Majesty's property.[1]
On 10 September 1855, the empty ship was found stuck in the ice of Davis Strait off Cape Walsingham of Baffin Island some 1,200miles (1,900km) from where she had been abandoned.[1] Resolute was discovered by the American whaler George Henry, captained by James Buddington of Groton, Connecticut.[1] The Americans freed Resolute from the ice, re-rigged the spars and sails, and arrived at New London, Connecticut on 24 December 1855.[1] The British government waived all claims to the ship upon learning of its arrival in New London.[1] The search for Sir John Franklin went on unsuccessfully for ten years and included forty search parties. Most of these were British but two were funded by Henry Grinnell, a New York merchant who had grown up in New Bedford. Grinnell also convinced the United States government to restore Resolute and return her to England as a gesture of "national courtesy". The United States Congress bought her for $40,000 and then had her refitted and sailed to England under the command of Captain Hartstein USN, where she was presented to Queen Victoria on 17 December 1856 as a token of comity.[1]
HMS Resolute served in the Royal Navy through the American Civil War and was retired and broken up in 1879.[1]
The Canadian settlement of Resolute, Nunavut, is named for Resolute.
In March, 2009, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown presented US President Barack Obama with the framed commission of HMS Resolute, and a pen holder made from the wood of another navy ship, HMSGannet.

A model of the Oval Office Resolute desk located at the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum.
The Resolute desks
Main article: Resolute desk
The British government ordered a desk to be made from the timbers of the ship; it was constructed by cabinet makers at the Joiner's Shop of chatham Dockyard [[1]]. The desk was then presented to U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 as a gesture of thanks for the rescue and return of Resolute.[1] Since then, the desk - known as the Resolute desk - has been used by every President except Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Most Presidents have used it as their official desk in the Oval Office, but some have had it in their private study in the Executive Residence. Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first to remove it from the Oval Office, and it was returned to the...(and so on)

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