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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Fury_(1814)

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The ‘Fury’ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Fury_(1814) remaining stores were unloaded on the beach and her crew were taken on board of Hecla, which reached England in October. In the midst of all the bustle midshipman Horatio Nelson Head, yet another of the talented amateur arist on the Arctic voyages, found time to make a sketch of the ‘Fury’ and ‘Hecla’, full-size vessels reduced to miniatures by the towing cliffs (see plate 15). Perry felt something was the same contrast between nature and the works of man when he wrote that ‘a vessel of whatever magnitude, or whatever strength, is little better than a nut-shell, when obliged to withstand the pressure of the unyielding ground on one side, and a moving body of ice on the other.’ Hopper wrote that the wreck of the ‘Fury’ that ‘such a catastrophe was at all times rather to be expected than otherwise. . . The only wonder is that we should have been till this time exempted from it. ~ Page 225

. . . .Nor was this lost ship forgotten, for although the ‘Fury’ soon sank, its abandoned stores were to play an important part in the expedition of John and James Clark Ross a few years later. ~ Page 226
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