Racehorse and Carcass stuck in pack ice on an unsuccessful attempt made in 1773 to find the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Racehorse was an 18-gun sloop of the Royal Navy, later refitted as a survey vessel comman

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Racehorse and Carcass stuck in pack ice on an unsuccessful attempt made in 1773 to find the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Racehorse was an 18-gun sloop of the Royal Navy, later refitted as a survey vessel commanded by Constantine John Phipps. Carcass was an Infernal-class bomb vessel of the Royal Navy, later refitted as a survey vessel on which a young Horatio Nelson served as a midshipman.

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