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September 1819 CE
Partly as a result Parry had been given command of a new expedition in the HMS Hecla accompanied by the slower HMS Griper under Matthew Liddon.
Others on the expedition are Edward Sabine, science officer and Frederick William Beechy.
For protection from ice the ships are clad with three-inch (seven point six centimeters) oak, have iron plates on their bows and internal cross-beams.
They also carry food in tin cans, an invention so new that there are as yet no can openers.
Instead of taking Ross's easy route anti-clockwise around Baffin Bay he heads straight for Lancaster Sound.
Fighting his way through ice he reaches clear water on July 28 and heads for Lancaster Sound.
He passes Ross's farthest west and keeps going.
Blocked by heavy ice, they go south for more than one hundred miles (one hundred and sixty kilometers) into Prince Regent Inlet before turning back.
Continuing west they pass 110°W (about six hundred miles west of Lancaster Strait) which entitles them to a £5,000 award offered by Parliament.
Finally blocked by ice, they turn back to a place Parry calls Winter Harbour on the south shore of Melville Island (somewhere near 107 or 108°W).
Cutting their way through new ice the ships reach anchorage on September 26.
Here they are frozen in for the next ten months.