Hms Resolute facts
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The desk in the Oval Office is called the Resolute Desk, named after the ship it was built out of in 1880. The HMS Resolute was found empty and adrift in packice, then salvaged by the US and gifted back to the UK, which helped narrowly avoid a war. FDR would add the front to hide his polio.
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The Oval Office Resolute Desk was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes made from the timber of the HMS Resolute
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HMS Resolute which was commissioned in search of the Sir John Franklin expedition, was trapped in the ice and abandoned in 1854. It was recovered two years later by an American Whaler and returned to Queen Victoria, who then presented a desk to POTUS made out of the wood from the ship.
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The Resolute Desk in the oval office was built using wood from the HMS Resolute a British ship that was lost in the Arctic and found by American whalers.
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Several desks were made from the timbers of the HMS Resolute, one was gifted to the president of the united states by Queen Victoria in 1880 and has been used by every American President except Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
