Sir Henry Kellett Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Henry Kellett NPG 1222

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Stephen Pearce

Kellett joined the Navy in 1822. He spent five years in the West Indies and then served on survey vessels under William Fitzwilliam Owen in Africa, and as second in command on HMS Sulphur in the East Indies and in the Opium War with China (1840-1). In 1845, he was appointed Captain of the survey ship HMS Herald, reassigned in 1848 to search for missing Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin. During this voyage, he discovered Herald Island. In 1852, he commanded HMS Resolute and... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.

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