A relic of Sir John Franklin's last expedition 1845-48. A fiddle-pattern silver table fork belonging to Gillies Alexander Macbean (2nd Master, 'HMS Terror'). 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, with the date code for 1837-38 and the maker's mark of William Trayes (the initials 'WT'). The monogram 'GAM' is engraved on the back of the handle. It was presented to Greenwich Hospital by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, 2 December 1854.

Macbean was educated at Greenwich Hospital Upper School. After a spell in the Merchant Service he entered the Navy on 17 March 1842. He was Second Master of HMS 'Terror' during Sir John Franklin's North West Passage expedition of 1845.