A relic of Sir John Franklin's last expedition 1845-48. A fiddle-pattern, silver table fork. It was obtained from the Inuit at Repulse Bay in 1854 by the Rae Expedition. The Inuit said that they had found the material at a camp to the north west of the mouth of the Back River where a party of Europeans had died of starvation.

The fork has Exeter hallmarks with the date code for 1818 and the maker's mark of George Ferris (the initials 'GF'). There is no crest of monogram. It was presented to Greenwich Hospital by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, 2 December 1854.