Resolute

After Sir John Franklin and his ships disappeared in the Arctic while seeking the Northwest Passage, 39 rescue missions were launched, including one by the HMS Resolute. In 1854, it became locked in the ice and was abandoned. A year later, American whalers discovered the Resolute drifting 1,200 miles away and steered it to Connecticut. The US government re-outfitted the ship and returned it to Queen Victoria, who, in 1879, had its best timbers made into a desk for President Rutherford B. Hayes--the Resolute Desk. With rare photographs, artwork, and maps throughout, this edition is updated with a new chapter on the discovery of Franklin's ships in 2014 and 2016 in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.