A relic of Sir John Franklin's last expedition 1845-48. A cook's knife with a wooden handle, 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 knife has a long sharp narrow steel blade and a dark wooden handle bound with a rivetted steel band to repair a split. A hole has been pierced at the end of the handle with a twin suspension loop. The maker's name 'YOUNG' has been stamped on the end of the blade. 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.