The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-01-03
From the London Times, Dec
THE QUEENS VISIT TO THE RESOLUTE.


Yesterday morning the Queen and Prince Albert in
spected the dis ovey barque Resouts which is lying
of Cowes in the Medina water but before narrang the
circumstances of the royal visit may be inappropr
ate as this is peculiarly the age of aheceden glance
at the past history of that remarkable craft and present
in consecutive form facts respecting her which
not generally known and others which, though they have
already been published too interesting to suffer by
repetition.
Her Maestys barque Resolue formed of Sir Edward
Belchers squadron of discovery and in May 1852 was
sent under the command Il, Captain Kellet R. NJ to the
Polar in search of Sir John Franklin and for scen-
thc purposes She waso since here deliverance enables
US to speak Of her of ship restored to life let rather
say she sa stout quarebuit vessel of 500 tons. She
is doubedecked and double-panked throughout in Or
der to Withstand the pressure of ice and she carries
brass gunssxpounders. Her builders, having regard
to the comfort of her officers and crew in the Arctic
fitted her with ingenious heating apparatus the fur
mace Of which inserted in the manhod while steam
pipes running fore and aft through the body of the vessel
maintained agreeable temperature when the Their
momeer had fallen much below zero. When she left the
government dockyard she literally provided with
everything requisite for her perious voyage and both
regards structure and equipment admirably adapted
for the service in which she to be engaged Owing
her peculiar build she is necessarily dull saer but she
is very strong ship and what the Americans call "a
good safe seaboat" Notwithstanding however, the care
bestowed her construction she ated fulfil the
purposes for which she was designed She frozen in
among the cebergs in latitude II deg NJ and in the month
of May, 1854 her officers and finally abandoned her
leaving their effects board She had remained in the
iceberg sixteen months when large portion of the ice in
which she embedded becoming detached from the
by haw it oaed off with her. leaving her the mercy
of wind and wave, and hurrying her out to SEAS
where in latitude sc deg 80 min and longitude Ga deg
she found in the month of September 1855 by the
American whaler George Henry, commanded by Captain
Burlington She had then drfed the wilderness Of
waters about 1900 miles from the spot where she
abandoned Captain Buddingon and part of his ap
preached her the ice and took quarters within
her. They found "a deathke silence and dread repose
for except themselves there not living thing on
board In the words of Dr. Macown, the surgeon of the
ship, who has written a pretty poem on the subject
Her wooden walls tenaness;
No the busy throng
Cbeered the lone decks through Arctic nights
With music and with song
The bold and gallant crew had fed
That once she gladly bore,
In search of Franklin and bis men,
From Albion's happy shore.
The ship found not to have sustained any very
teral damage. The ropes indeed hard and infex
bic chains; the rigging stiff, and cracked the
touch the tanks in the hold had burst the iron work
was ruscd the paint discolored with bige water and
the topmast and topgallant mast shattered but the
hull bad escaped unscabed and the ship hurt in
any vital part There three or four feet of water in
the hold but che had not sprung aleak The cordage
coled in little circles the deck after the fashion
Of English seamen and the sails frozen to such stiff
resemble sheets of tin. Several thousand pounds
gunpowder found board, somewhat deeriorated
quality, yet good enough for such purposes firing
salues. Some of the scientific instruments were injured
BY exposure and rust but others in excellent cond
lion. For year and four months no human foot had
trod the deck of that phantom ship yet amid those
savage solitudes, where man there was none, and
might never BIO, the pilots wheel made stern proc
amaon, for around 1t inscribed in letters of brass
the immortal words, England expects that every man
will do his duty IL for man had been printed the
word "seaP or whale tho sentiment might have had
more practical significance Captain Buddngton remain
cd on board till the thsw set in and then, when the ice be-
gan to soften he shaped his New London Con-
ncucut where he arrived in December, 1885, The Reso
ute was removed without delay to New York, and what
Followed is honorable the American government aud
speaks 30 highly for their courtesy towards this country
mat though 1t has been often published it may well be
peated for it should be universally known throughout
nosland sum Of $4,000 appropriated by Con-
s for the purpose Of purchasing the Resolute from the
naer the English government having waived all claim
ner and 1t determined that she should be repaired
rehed with the utmost care with the design of re-
mg her to the Queen in least good condition as
was Mt the time when the exigencies Of their situation