The grave stones standing on the foreshore of Beechey Island, Barrow Strait.

A distant port side view just forward of the broadside of the ice breaker Kapitan Dranitsyn (1980) off Beechey Island and Devon Island. The passengers went ashore here to look at the four grave markers - three from crew of the 1845 Northwest Passage Expedition and one from a later search expedition in 1854 looking for Sir John Franklin's expedition.

Object details

ID: PM11794/22
Collection: Historic Photographs
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Sharp, Ivy
Vessels: Kapitan Dranitsyn (1980)
Date made: 1 August 1996
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Ivy Sharp Collection
Measurements: Overall: 25 mm x 36 mm