midnight
For such a purpose , and for travelling parties of his own over the ice , Captain Kellett was to leave a depot at Assistance Bay , some thirty miles only from Beechey Island . In nearing for that purpose the `` Resolute '' grounded , was left with but seven feet of water , the ice threw her over on her starboard bilge , and she was almost lost . Not quite lost , however , or we should not be telling her story . At midnight she was got off , leaving sixty feet of her false keel behind . Captain Kellett forged on in her , -- left a depot here and another there , -- and at the end of the short Arctic summer had come as far westward as Sir Edward Parry came . Here is the most westerly point the reader will find on most maps far north in America , -- the Melville Island of Captain Parry . Captain Kellett 's associate , Captain McClintock of the `` Intrepid , '' had commanded the only party which had been here since Parry .