‘Stopped by the ice off Cape Prescott’ Size:M: 60 x 40cm Archdeacons and Clerks

Archdeacons and Clerks

View looking from St James's Park

'Innocence

Alan Stephenson

including lamplighters

‘Stopped by the ice off Cape Prescott’ Size:M: 60 x 40cm Archdeacons and ClerksMaritime view of H. M. S. Alert stopped by sea ice off Cape Prescott, Ellesmere Island, part of Nunavut, Canada. Plate from the book Narrative of a voyage to the Polar Sea during 1875 6 in H. M. ships Alert and Discovery by George Strong Nares, vol. 1 (Sampson Low, London, 1878). Alert and Discovery were the Royal Navy vessels employed on the British Arctic Expedition 1875 1876 commanded by Sir George Nares. The vessels progressed between Ellesmere