Robert Peary, ca. 1908-09
Between 1898 and 1909, Newfoundland and Labrador Captain Bob Bartlett accompanied polar explorer Robert Peary on three separate attempts to reach the North Pole – once as first mate of the
Windward, and twice as captain of the
Roosevelt.
From Fitzhugh Green, Bob Bartlett Master Mariner (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1929) 28.