Talk:HMS Resolute (1850)

Funny-looking ship

I don't think the desk is really an appropriate picture. It should be either a picture of the ship, or no picture. 209.146.241.93 20:55, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Previously sorted, but I just removed some more of the desk minutia that belong and are in Resolute desk. --J Clear (talk) 12:56, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

File:William Simpson - George Zobel - England and America. The visit of her majesty Queen Victoria to the Arctic ship Resolute - December 16th, 1856.jpg to appear as POTD soon

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Picture of the day

Queen Victoria visits HMS Resolute prior to the ship being granted to her as a gift. Resolute was a British ship abandoned in the Arctic ice in 1854. She was found adrift by American whalers the following year, refurbished, and returned to the British. As a return favour, when the ship was broken up in 1879, some of its wood was made into a desk and gifted to the US President Rutherford B. Hayes. The Resolute desk remains an iconic part of the American White House furniture.Lithograph: George Zobel, after William Simpson; restoration: Adam Cuerden

Resolute moved east at about 1.5 knots per day

It's not clear what is meant here, but 1.5 nautical miles per day seems a plausible speed - can anybody confirm this? --catslash (talk) 18:46, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

(Kablammo has now changed it to nautical miles per day - thank you) --catslash (talk) 20:50, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

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