A relic of Sir John Franklin's last expedition 1845-48. A silver, old English pattern table fork owned by Lt. Robert Orme Sargent. It 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 fork has London hallmarks for 1792 and the maker's mark of Thomas Northcote (the initials 'TN'). The back of the handle is engraved with Sergent's crest: a dolphin and wings. It was presented to Greenwich Hospital by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, 2 December 1854.

Sergent was the Mate of HMS 'Erebus'. He had passed his lieutenant's examination in 1843 and was promoted to this rank on 15 August 1846. Commander Fitzjames described him as a 'nice, pleasant-looking lad, very good-natured'.