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Joseph René Bellot, 1826–53

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

F. J. Woodward
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On the right bank of the Thames, outside Greenwich Hospital, stands an obelisk of red granite bearing the single word “BELLOT”. For those (and they must be the vast majority) to whom this means nothing, a bronze tablet at the back provides a little more light:

To the intrepid young/BELLOT,/Of the French Navy,/Who, in the endeavour to rescue/Franklin,/Shared the fate and the glory of that/Illustrious navigator./(From his British admirers.)/1853.

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Polar Record , Volume 5 , Issue 39 , January 1950 , pp. 398 - 407
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1950

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