A relic of Sir John Franklin's last expedition 1845-48. A seaman's certificate case owned by William Fowler paymaster and purser's steward HMS 'Erebus'. He came from Bristol and was aged 26 at the time of the expedition. The case was obtained from the Inuit at Repulse Bay in 1854 by the Rae Expedition. The Inuit said that they had found the material at a camp to the north west of the mouth of the Back River where a party of Europeans had died of starvation. The case is a shallow rectangular shape with a lid. It is stamped with the device of the Admiralty seal: a foul anchor surrounded by an oak leaf and surmounted by a crown with the latin inscription 'SIGIL . OFF I. MAG . ADM MAG .BR. &C.' 'Fowler' is scratched in cursive script on the base. The item is shown in the drawing by Edward Pulleyn (AAA3972). It was presented to Greenwich Hospital by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, 2 December 1854.