New London One of the most famous desks ever built owes its existence in no small part to 19th-century New London sailors and their chance discovery of an abandoned British vessel nearly 140 years a.
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Joe Biden inauguration: The Resolute Desk used by US presidents in the White House since 1880 and its history linked to Kent
Published: 06:00, 20 January 2021
The world s gaze will be drawn to Washington DC and the Capitol once again today for President Joe Biden s official inauguration.
And when the first historic picture is taken of Mr Biden sat at his desk in the Oval Office, there s one reason why residents of Kent may have an eye on the furniture rather than the 46th President of the United States of America.
Joe Biden will become the 46th US President today. Picture: Niall Carson/PA
As the hourly chiming of the grandfather clock marked time, an old man settled into his worn, leather chair.
Often on cold, late winter’s evenings – blanketed and cushioned in the comfortable confines of the crinkled leather – he’d read himself to sleep with stories about adventure.
Photo by
JM Simpson
One night he read about Captain Henry Keilett and the sailors who in 1854 had served aboard the
HMS Resolute. Outfitted to search for the ships of an earlier attempt by Sir John Franklin of the Royal Navy which had set sail to find the Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic, Keilett’s ship had become inextricably trapped in the ice.