![]() She was Clyde-built, by Scott’s of Greenock, as a merchant ship. The sign on the side is a Royal endorsement: Queen Victoria and Prince Edward visited it twice. Iceberg exterior, Royal Naval Exhibition of 1891 in London. There are two polar bears prowling above the entrance. The Investigator panorama was built inside a structure designed to look like an iceberg. This dramatic moment was recreated with scale models at t he 1891 Royal Naval Expedition, and a photograph of it was later sold as a magic lantern slide: Investigator was abandoned in Mercy Bay, Banks Island, on 3rd June 1853. Were it not for Lieutenant Bedford Pim of HMS Resolute, more than 60 officers and men would probably have died, and the ship herself may never have been found. ![]() The story of HMS Investigator was very nearly a tragedy on the scale of the Franklin Expedition it had been sent to find. ![]()
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