Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions
1898- New York: A Disturbing Factor
The Hope at rest
“In December, 1897, while I was in London, the yacht Windward… was tendered to me by Alfred Harmsworh, who offered to have her re-engined and delivered to me in New York… I had to make the most of the Windward as she was. But her extreme slowness (3 ½ knots under favourable circumstances), and the introduction of a disturbing factor in the appropriation by anther of my plan and field of work, necessitated the charter of an auxiliary ship if I did not wish to be distanced… The Windward sailed from New York on the 4th of July, 1898, and on the 7th I went on board the Hope at Sydney, C.B.” - Robert E. Peary in Nearest the Pole, published in 1907
"The Hope aground and listing" by John Bartlett, 1895-1897, Peary-MacMillan Arctic museum Collections
