White House HRS’ “Resolute” desk - message “USA survived though trapped in ICE”?
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RESOLUTE meaning is determined, purposeful. The ship HMS Resolute was originally sent in 1852 on a rescue mission to the Arctic to find the missing explorer Rear Admiral Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), his sister was the wife of Alfred Lord Tennyson, and his crews of HMS “Erebus” and “Terror”. Erebus is the Greek deity of “Deep darkness and Shadow”.
Anyone can buy replica of the White House Resolute desk. The Desk was a gift by Britain’s Queen Victoria to US President Rutherford B Hayes in 1880. Built from oak timbers recovered from Arctic explorer ship “The Resolute”.
FDR ordered the ‘eagle’ secret door installed to shield his braced legs. Truman installed it.
A copy of the WH desk could be purchased at the WH gift shop in mahogany.
Article about WH desk:
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Wiki on HRS Resolute ship:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Resolute_(1850)
“Resolute, formerly known as the barque Ptarmigan, was purchased on 21 February 1850 and renamed a month later.”
Another Arctic explorer rescue ship was named the “Enterprise” (Startrek).
The “Resolute” trapped in Arctic ice was ordered abandoned in April 1854. It was rediscovered by an American whaler crew of the “George Henry” on the day before September 11, 1855. The US Congress used taxpayer money to purchase & restore the “Resolute” then returned the ship to England in 1856.
Salvage timbers were used to create the Oval Office desk as a gift from Queen Victoria. US President Eisenhower had it removed but President Kennedy returned it to the Oval Office. A 2nd desk “The Grinnell” desk was made as well as a 3rd for Queen Victoria. Henry Grinnell (1799-1874) played a key role in the fate of the ship “Resolute”. Henry descended from Matthew Grinnell (1590-1643) of the original Newport Rhode Island “free thought” group. There is a long line of Richard Grinnell of Rhode Island including “Pirate Dick” of the Am Rev War. Grinnell is also spelled Grenell. Ambassador Richard Grenell (b.1966) was born in Michigan.
The desk plays a role in the 2007 film “National Treasure” part two by Disney films. In the movie the desk contains a cypher related to the assassinations of both Lincoln and JFK.
History blog about Resolute:
https://todayinhistory.blog/tag/hms-resolute/
White House history:
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/treasures-of-the-white-house-resolute-desk
Another Story of the Desk:
https://www.feelguide.com/2016/12/06/the-amazing-origin-story-of-the-presidents-desk-how-it-emerged-from-the-canadian-arctic-in-1855/