Edward Augustus Inglefield Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield ( 27 March 1820 – 4 September 1894 ) was a Royal Naval officer who led one of the searches for the missing Arctic explorer John Franklin during the 1850s . In doing so , his expedition charted previously unexplored areas along the northern Canadian coastline , including Baffin Bay , Smith Sound and Lancaster Sound . He was also the inventor of the marine hydraulic steering gear and the anchor design that bears his name . The warship HMS " Inglefield " is named after him , as is the Inglefield Land region of Greenland . First voyage to the Arctic . Inglefield set out from Britain on his search in July 1852 , commanding Lady Franklin ' s private steamer " Isabel " , seven years after Franklin had left on his ill - fated search for the fabled Northwest Passage . Once Inglefield had reached the Arctic , a search and survey of Greenland ' s west coast was made ; Ellesmere Island was resighted and named in honour of the president of the Royal Geographical Society ; Smith Sound was penetrated further than any known records ; Jones Sound was also searched ; and a landing was made at Beechey Island in Lancaster Sound . No sign , however , of Franklin ' s expedition was found . Finally , before the onset of winter forced Inglefield to turn homewards , the expedition searched and charted much of Baffin Island ' s eastern coast . Despite finding no traces of the Franklin expedition , Inglefield was fêted on his return for the surveying his expedition had achieved . The Royal Geographical Society awarded him its 1853 Patron ' s Medal " for his enterprising survey of the coasts of Baffin Bay , Smith Sound and Lancaster Sound . " Subsequent Arctic voyages . Inglefield made two further voyages to the Arctic in HMS " Phoenix " , to supply the search for the Franklin expedition overseen by Sir Edward Belcher . He returned from the first of these in 1853 , bringing with him the first officer to have traversed the Northwest Passage , Samuel Gurney Cresswell of HMS " Investigator " . ( The " Investigator " had also been sent to join the search for the Franklin expedition , but starting from the " western " side of northern Canada . ) Arriving back in the Arctic the following year , 1854 , Inglefield found Belcher ' s ships abandoned , save one to which the crews had retreated . Most of these men returned with Inglefield to Britain . Later life . Soon after his return from the Arctic , Inglefield was sent to join the Crimean War in the Black Sea as captain of HMS " Firebrand " , where he took part in the siege of Sevastopol . After the Crimean War , he captained a number of ships and continued to rise through the ranks . In 1869 he was made a rear admiral and three years later was appointed Superintendent of the Royal Naval dockyard in Malta . Promotions to vice admiral and then admiral followed , between which he was knighted . In 1878 he was appointed Commander - in - Chief , North America and West Indies Station . Inglefield retired in 1885 . Thereafter he devoted much of his time to painting and his watercolours of Arctic landscapes were exhibited at several art galleries in London . He died , aged seventy - four , in 1894 , and is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery . Family . Edward Augustus Inglefield was the son of Rear Admiral Samuel Inglefield and the father of Henry Beaufort Wilmot Beaumont Inglefield and Edward Fitzmaurice Inglefield , a Royal Navy officer ( eventually rear admiral ) , inventor of the Inglefield clip and Secretary to Lloyd ' s of London .