This depicts an event when 'Alert' was returning south: ‘[at] the very top of high-water a rather insignificant looking piece of ice pressed against the ship…and we suddenly found the ship aground forward with deep water under the stern... Before any means could be taken to release her from this position, the tide had fallen fourteen feet at low water, leaving the fore foot and keel bare as far as the fore-channels; the ship lying over on her bilge at an angle of twenty-two degrees’. At the next high water ship was lightened and hauled off unharmed.