An image showing 'PM11797/37; The bleached wooden cenotaph to crew who died during the searches for the 1845 Northwest Passage Expedition with a flat stone structure in front of it. In the foreground is a cross made up of rusty tins filled with stones.'

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The bleached wooden cenotaph with a cross of empty rusty tins on Beechey Island, Barrow Strait.

The bleached wooden cenotaph to crew who died during the searches for the 1845 Northwest Passage Expedition with a flat stone structure in front of it. In the foreground is a cross made up of rusty tins filled with stones. A steep scree slope with the cliffs of Beechey Island are in the background.

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Object details

ID:	PM11797/37
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