John Henry Busbridge

John Henry Busbridge joined the British Naval Franklin Search Expedition, 1848-1852 (leader Thomas Moore), as able seaman and later quartermaster in HMS Plover, sent by the Admiralty to the Bering Strait region to serve as a depot ship for Sir John Franklin's missing Northwest Passage expedition and to assist the British Naval Franklin Search Expedition, 1848-1850 (leader Henry Kellett).

From the guide to the John Busbridge collection, 1847-1853, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)