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Visit of the Queen and Prince Albert to the 'Resolute', Spithead, Hampshire, 1856, (c1888). Queen Victoria and her husband visit the ship of British Arctic explorer John Franklin. The 'Resolute' reached Spithead in December 1856, under the command of Captain Hartstein of the US Navy. It had been repaired by the United States Government after being found abandoned in the ice, and was presented to Great Britain. Illustration from The Life & Times of Queen Victoria, Vol II, by Robert Wilson, (c1888).