3-070-761 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The American Franklin Search Expedition - grave of Lt. John Irving, R.N., 1881. 'We have been favoured with permission to make use of the interesting Sketches and Journal prepared by Mr. Henry W. Klutschak...who was a member of the Arctic exploring party under command of Lieutenant Schwatka, of the United States Army, during the overland expedition to the shores of King William's Land, by which some interesting relics of Sir John Franklin and his comrades were lately discovered and brought to New York...They have also brought the remains of an officer of the Terror, Lieutenant John Irving, which were identified by a prize medal found in his opened grave...The sketch taken by Mr. Klutschak on June 28, shows the grave of Lieutenant Irving, with a view of Victory Point. The grave, situated close to the beach, had been marked by sticking up near it two pieces of a sledge, inscribed with the letters, "T. 11.," which are supposed to have belonged to H.M.S. Terror; but the contents of the grave have been removed...Lieutenant Schwatka's party left Irving Bay on July 13, after erecting a cairn or stone piled monument over the grave of Lieutenant Irving, and marking a stone to indicate the object of the cairn'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.