The copper stove designed to hold the burner of a portable cooking apparatus from the 1845 British Northwest Passage Expedition led by Sir John Franklin. The burner is made from copper sheathing marked with the broad arrow. Air holes are perforated in the base. The burner compartment has a door, now separated, with a catch made from a key.

The stove was found by Lieutenant William R. Hobson's sledge team on 3 May 1859 at an abandoned camp site at Cape Felix, King William Island, as part of the search expedition led by Captain F. L. McClintock. Hobson described it as '...a small copper stove, apparently ship made,..' [Stenton, 'Arctic' v.69, No. 4, p. 515]. McClintock recorded it as 'a small, roughly made copper apparatus for cooking' [McClintock, 'Voyage of the Fox' (1860), p.367].

The stove is marked with white paint on the front 'PORTABLE COOKING APPARATUS FOUND ON THE NW SHORE KING WILLIAM ISLAND' indicating that it was displayed at the Royal Naval Museum, Greenwich. The item is also shown in - 'Stereoscopic slides of the relics of Sir John Franklin's Expedition' photographed by Lieutenant Cheyne RN, at the United Services Museum, Whitehall, No. 1.