Items found in the boat on King William Island

A fourth box containing items found in the boat on King William Island. This consists of two pieces of port fire, a roll of waxed twine, bristles, copper nails, bullets, telescopes, wooden button, a piece of shot in a kid glove, a bayonet scabbard altered into a sheath for a knife, a woollen glove, cartridge, cartridge shot charges, shot pouches, flannel, percussion caps, stanchions 9 inches long for supporting a weather cloth that was round the boat, a piece of canvas, and two packets of blank cartridge found in green paper.

Object Details

ID: ALB1402.7
Type: Photographic print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Cheyne, J. P.
Date made: 1859
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 85 mm x 175 mm
Parts: 'A Series of Stereoscopic Views of the Franklin Relics, brought home in the Fox by Captain McClintock, September 1859' (Photograph album)