Resolute was repaired and returned to the United Kingdom as a gesture of goodwill from the United States. It was found in 1855 floating in Davis Strait by George Henry, an American whaling ship. HMS Resolute was abandoned in the Arctic waterway Tariyunnuaq in 1854 while searching for Sir John Franklin and his lost expedition.
The 1,300-pound (590-kilogram) desk was created by William Evenden, a skilled joiner at Chatham Dockyard in Kent, probably from a design by Morant, Boyd, & Blanford. Hayes in 1880 and was built from the oak timbers of the British Arctic exploration ship HMS Resolute. The desk was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. The Resolute desk, also known as the Hayes desk, is a nineteenth-century partners desk used by several presidents of the United States in the White House as the Oval Office desk, including the five most recent presidents. Kneehole panel designed by Lorenzo Winslow built by Rudolph Bauss
William Evenden (probably from a design by Morant, Boyd, & Blanford) President Barack Obama sitting at the Resolute desk in 2009
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