Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-01-01
RETURN OF TIE BARK REsoLuTE.


and interesting :cc.,,r al :';r discovery and ,c:uri
III l,. British ,lavy ha;t hr-n,u,c. wir hrun-:h
iniu New London on the I'd Deer. Tie Rcso'u
is vessel Il" nbout five hundred tous. She WAS sen
out new, in search Of Sir Iunn Franklin in 1885, !e
turned in ISL, and was .ont out again in Bccheri
expedition in April, S5;; under tie immediate com
mand of Cupt Austin. In August, lSJ2, she saiie'
from B.ccher's Island for Melville Island, and h:'
no, Since been heard oi till discovered by Captain
l}uddingtun, OF Tie whaling vessel George Henry
which sailed from New London OIL the 18th OF May
last. She made the Southern edge of the pack OF ice
which mariners always encounter there, June 10Th, II
y. lat. 81 deg, w. Ion. 90 deg.
Tho Palladium gives the following account Of the
remainder Of her voyage:
She proceeded northwarl along the edge of the
pack for several days. On the 18th June, at a. NJ.
she got enaasied in the h"ati''s Ice, and hu her cut
water and grippe 1.-THE lower purt OF the keel badly
damaged. She cleared herself, and at nude oil
on y. L. course, AMI nster speaking the United
States propeller Arctic, Lieut.. Hursten commanding
entered the port of Host-n5urg. i'll Greenland, July
18th As she was going into harbor, spoke the bark
Jane, from Bouess, Scotland Capt Walker, bound
t" Cumberland Inlet, the George Eenrys destna-
| ton.
| The injuries to the George Henry were repaired,
and che left port July 18th for the pack of ice before
entered July 18th she fell in with it, but it was 30
solid As to prevent entrance. She stood back across
iii straits and again spoke the Jano which was then
sailing for the puck. The George Henry went north
into Disco Bay Greenland, fishing and afterwards
entered Lively. Left there 3lst July spoke the Jane
same day. The George Henry whaled in Disco Bay.
and her crew caught hhbu, on Sea Coal Rect until
August 10Th, the Jane cruising with her Nearly the
lust sight of the Jane WIS had August I'D, when She
| was imbedded i'll ice. On the 23d August saw hour
vessels, of which the Jane, on tue starbonrd
bow. August 24th the George Henry left the Yes
sells and steered boldly into the pack towards Cape
Wulsinghan. ~,
| Angus; 2S,h saw land, Exeter Hsad, near Cape w.
Thermometer stood ut 80 deg. above0 Their rudder
was here damaged by ice which closely heinmcd them
| in and on 31th August closed around them. Here
they drifting, the land in sight, August 3lst, and
| saw u white bear the ice not far from them.
While drifting here, Capt. Budlinston, from whose
lips and the log. book of the George Henry, give
readers the account says they killed three OF these
animals, shooting close BY the side OF the vessel
ms he was searching for food That one weighed only
20D pounds but at least of the others weighed ono
ounds and it required five six with ropes TO
drag its body apross the ice 10 the ship. The Their
mometer stood at 80 deg. above o. September I'd,
the George Henry still drifting in the ice, with
the thermometer 30 deg. above o. September Sth
still drifting, with the thermometer the same.
DISCOVERY OF THE REsoLUTE.
September 9Th, at III A. 81. with gale blowing
first the bark Resoluta, Captain Buddlngton
himself raising her through the glass. She in \.
lat 81 deg. ~ m, W. long. between 65 deg. and 10
deg Cape Mercy bearing y. E.. and Is to 2n miles dis
tant The Resonte was 10 10 miles from the George
Henry, and no on board the latter then had any
idea Of what che was She was out OF the current,
aud bearing 5. w. Of the George Henry.
Afterthe time when the George Henry first saw
her. the ships gradually worked together IT be-
ing Impossible To manage vessels in such MASSES OF
floating ice The Resoue WA in sight OF the George
Henry from the time when she WAS tlrs! seen until
she was finally boarded by the mate and three men,
who travelled five miles over the ice to reach her,
jumping from piece to piece, and pushing themselves
along on isolated cakes across small channels.
The first boarding took place September Eth, the
mate and party leaving the George Henry at 4. NJ,
and reaching the Resolnte at ! P. NJ the same day
gale of wind was coming on, the party staid Oh the
Resolute that night and the next day, the weather
holding about the same On the 18th September,
Captain Buddington with two men, boarded her, the
mates party having returned the day before. Cap
tain Buddngton says he knew what she was before
he boarded her; he knew at first sight September
H. that she was no whaler, by her running rigging
l-.a: closely secured to her standing rigging, her
,,, being tied to her yards &c, Sc. signs which
~ u -lilor convey meaning that lands:ncn would
not detect. The captain and party stad in the cabin
that night having reached the kesoute at shutdown.
In the morning OF September 2Oth, Capt. Is rugged
of the four iorce-pumps Oh the vessels and went
to work pumping, though he WIS previously unac-
qugued with their use. For three successive days
September 2,st, 22d and 2id-siX men were at work
on the one pump fourteen hours out of the twenty
four. Capt. Is. says he was determined to bring
away the prize, il human ingenuity and physical ex-
ertion could do it. Friday, the 2ls. September, II
came OH thick, and the ice opened good DEAL
When the vessel first boarded she was wing over
with ice in her hold on the ler6oardside, and seven
feet water her starboard headed to the Eastward
Sunday Sept. 23d, al Q T. NJ the weasel freed her-
self from the ice and water. and righted.
Monday, September -, Captain Buddingon and |
his party went TO work at the rigging, getting it
straight and preparing to make sail, hanging the rud
der which was found Oh deck, &c, &c, the two YES
l1y a
va. of the Resolute up and she was in rondi-
ton to make sail. The leo would occasionally open
and the vessels make little advance, sometimes hn
ship s leugth and sometimes several lengths IN
s. r. direction When the Resolutc was freed from
the luatng ice, Cape Elizabeth was i'll sight. They
were to get out OF the pack as they best coud.-
The George Henry was IN haiug distance, wheh
they drtted apart again and both feil down 70 y. a
IS deg 90 and w. lon. IS deg. 49, October ID. Here
they held in to the edge Of the pack in ~ w. gale
of wind for four daxs.
October 2lst, the Reso!ute squared away for New
London. With Captain Buddinglon and ten men on
board. Here we will leave them. and return to the
George Henry, which left in charge OF the mate
and Ii seamen. She lost der rudder in the ice Octo-
Der ..ti. October aStk, they built temporary rud
der and proceeded oil their course to New London
During the homeward passage the gales were very
severe aud the rudder oar tmes oil deck Tor re-
pair. The George Henry got as tar as Newport, H.
l., on her way home and put in at that port during
stress of weather, December 18th, whence she was
lowed to New London, and entered harbor Decem-
Der 2lst all hands, as we'll az those on the Resoute,
having had good health during the trip
rHEPAssAGE OF THE REsoLuTE TO NEW LONDON.
Capt. Buddington aud his ten men in the Resolute,
had 4 hard time Of II coming home. Inc weather
was scressivn Of gales, which drove them down I"
IN, Bernudas, where they spoke the vessels Martha
Whtteinor- four days out from Richmond, bound to
Liverpool in n. lat. IS deg. w. long. ". and i'll tie
same latitude aud longitude spoke The brig Mong"n-
cry Of Boston, Capt Mcintyre: The Montgomery
r. ,I. ,,,I, - pnfn sol
water. From the 2lst OF October, when they made
sail for New Ioudon, the crew were constantly ell
gagged in ";rimuims' Ihe vessel.
Their food, Consisting of provisions found on tue
Resou,e, wus nearly gone, and had not Capt. Mcln-
tyre scusonably supplied them, they would have been
very badly oil. Tho Resolule reached New LONDON
December 3d. and came TO anchor three quarters oi
mile from tie wharf, not Tar from the Groton shore.
During the passage the we-e much troubled lor
wutcr having 10 melt ice and drink q brackl6h fluid
from one Of the vessels trnks, which was only tole-
r.be whcu made into chocolate, She lost one whole
suit Of calls during the pnssage they being complete
ly FUSED up
TIE RrsoLUTE WHEN BOARDED.
II will be remembered that Mr.. Quale, the mate,
and three men bourdCd The Rcsoute Tor the first time
Sep,enber 18th. The ice round her was from - I"
81 feet thick. Getting on decE, they io"nd every
thug slowed away in proper order tor desertion-
svnrs hauled up side and bound, boats piled to-
p.ther covering snow-scts, matches closed, &c, &C
Everything was silent and dark in the cabin, but
they broke in the atchway door, ana ielt their way
IN darkness to tue table. On it they found matches
and candles aud the dvcuncrs Of the officers, with
excellent liquor in tiIe, GLASSES standing aroundjust
as they had been lett many months before
4 dry mould Ind gathered over everything. The
irpu water tanks in the hold had burst from eXtrelnc
cold, aud the water they Ind held had flowed ovel
the bottom of the hold. Everything between decks
WIS covered with moisture. "A sort of perspratnn
had risen from tho water underneath, aud settled
above. Many articles of apparel were found wiring.
L,, ,.l, firm in ,.nh nI
thv mould soon began TO drip down upon them.
uY BOARD THE REsuLurE.
On boarding the ship the frs, Impression is one OF
admiration the massive strength o! everything con
,h kni IN the yn1luss of the vessel