“The lure of the arctic is tugging at my heart ... On the three-masted steam-powered schooner called the Roosevelt, Peary and Henson made it closer to the pole than on any expedition to date.

The British explorer's ships were powered by the latest steam engines and operated by a 130-person crew. He set sail for the Arctic with a 1,000-book library, two organs, 8,000 tins of canned ...

The vessel was a wooden-hulled icebreaker, an elegant steam yacht with a 50-horse power engine ... England's Forgotten Arctic Explorer. Capelotti says Leigh Smith 'always begged off' attempts ...

John Rae charted the final stretch of the long sought north west passage - which became known as Rae Strait A four-man team is to retrace a famous journey by Orkney's 19th Century Arctic explorer ...