'Alert' (1856) beset in ice when off Cape Beechey having been pushed on shore and trapped by ice floes.
Starboard stern view of 'Alert' (1856) beset in ice on 8 August 1876 when off Cape Beechey having been pushed on shore and trapped by ice floes. In the middle distance are the lower slopes of Mount Beaumont. The slight indent in the shoreline after Cape Beechey where this happened was known as 'Shift-Rudder Bay'. The floe-berg forced 'Alert' onshore, lifting the stern three to five feet out of the water, before it grounded and the ship settled to being about six inches above her usual waterline. Note that the ice anchors are out on the port side, and that one of the ship's boats is on the ice on the starboard side.
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