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With no end to the trouble in sight, the Resolute's captain made a very hard decision. He and his crew had no choice but to leave. On the 28th of April, , Sir Edward Belcher gave his order to abandon ship. The Resolute was frozen in among the icebergs in lat.

She had remained in the icebergs sixteen months, when a large portion of the ice in which she was imbedded becoming detached from the mass by a thaw, it floated off with her, leaving her at the mercy of the wind and waves, and hurrying her out to remote seas, where in lat. She had then drifted over the wilderness of waters about miles from the spot where she was abandoned.

Captain Buddington and a part of his crew approached her over the ice and took up their quarters within her.

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They found "a deathlike silence and a dread repose" for, except themselves, there was not a living creature on board. The ship was found not to have sustained any very material damage. The ropes, indeed, were hard and inflexible as chains; the rigging was stiff, and cracked at the touch; the tanks in the hold had burst, the ironwork was rusted, the paint was discoloured with bilge-water, and the mast and topgallantmast were shattered; but the hull had escaped unscathed and the ship was not hurt in any vital part.

There were three or four feet of water in the hold, but she had not sprung a leak.

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The cordage was coiled in neat little circles on the deck, after the fashion of English seamen, and the sails were frozen to such stiffness as to resemble sheets of tin. Several thousand pounds of gunpowder were found on board, somewhat deteriorated in quality, yet good enough for such purposes as firing salutes. Some of the scientific instruments were injured by exposure and rust, but others were in excellent condition. For a year and four months no human foot had trod the deck of that deserted ship; yet, amid those savage solitudes, where man there was none, and might never be, the pilot's wheel made a stern proclamation, for around it were inscribed in letters of brass the immortal words, "England expects that every man will do his duty.

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Captain Buddington remained on board till the thaw set in, and then, when the ice began to soften, he shaped his course to New London, Connecticut where he arrived in December, The Resolute was removed without delay to New York, and what followed is so honorable to the American Government, and speaks so highly for their courtesy towards this country, that, though it has been often published, it may well be repeated, for it should be universally known throughout England. A sum of 40, dollars was appropriated, with the concurrence of the Senate and Congress, for the purchase of purchasing the Resolute from the whalers, the English Government having waived all claim to her and it was determined that she should be repaired and refitted with the utmost care, with the design of restoring her to the Queen in at least as good a condition as she was at the time when the exigencies of their situation compelled her crew to abandon her.

Kennedy, the desk has been in the oval office or a private study in the White House, from that day to this.

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Since the time of Columbus, European explorers searched for a navigable shortcut by open water, from Europe to Asia. Clues were found including notes and isolated graves, telling the story of a long and fruitless effort to stay alive in a hostile climate. The wreck of HMS Erebus would not be discovered until , her sister ship, two years later. In , the British Admiralty possessed few ships suitable for arctic service. Two civilian steamships were purchased and converted to exploration vessels: HMS Resolute was a Barque rigged merchant ship, purchased in as the Ptarmigan , and refitted for Arctic exploration.

Re-named Resolute , the vessel became part of a five ship squadron leaving England in April , sailing into the Canadian arctic in search of the doomed Franklin expedition.

Neither Franklin nor any of his officers and men would ever return alive. HMS Resolute found and rescued the long suffering crew of the HMS Investigator , hopelessly encased in ice where, three years earlier, she too had been searching for the lost expedition. There was no choice but to abandon ship, striking out across the ice pack in search of their supply ships. The American whale ship George Henry discovered the drifting Resolute on September 10, , 1, miles from her last known position.

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Captain James Buddington split his crew, half of them now manning the abandoned ship. Hartstene presented her to Queen Victoria on December HMS Resolute served in the British navy until being retired and broken up in The desk, known as the Resolute Desk , has been used by nearly every American President since, whether in a private study or the oval office. FDR had a panel installed in the opening, since he was self conscious about his leg braces.