sailing-tender

Updated: May 1, 2025

Up that very channel, it has since been ascertained, the expedition under Sir John Franklin had gone, but had been compelled, as those in search of it soon were, to return southward. In the meantime, Commander Inglefield, who had first gone out in the Isabel, commissioned the Phoenix steam-sloop, with the Lady Franklin as a sailing-tender, and proceeded to Baffin's Bay.

William Henry Giles Kingston - Our Sailors: Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign