‘Stopped by the ice off Cape Prescott’ Finish:Stretched November 18

November 18

Celebrations in Liverpool

On the 27th April 1882

Depiction of the procession of Pitt the Younger to the City of London on 28 February 1784

‘Stopped by the ice off Cape Prescott’ Finish:Stretched November 18Maritime view of H. M. S. Alert stopped by sea ice off Cape Prescott, Ellesmere Island, part of Nunavut, Canada. Plate from the book Narrative of a voyage to the Polar Sea during 1875 6 in H. M. ships Alert and Discovery by George Strong Nares, vol. 1 (Sampson Low, London, 1878). Alert and Discovery were the Royal Navy vessels employed on the British Arctic Expedition 1875 1876 commanded by Sir George Nares. The vessels progressed between Ellesmere