In 1830, a fleet of fifty British whaleships reached Melville Bay, Northwest Greenland in early June, a month before they expected. But the same winds that had helped them also crowded the Bay with ice floes, and locked most of the fleet in, including the Diamond, the Resolution, the Rattler and the Eliza Swan.
Twenty fine ships were crushed to splinters, and many bold whalemen froze or drowned. The Eliza Swan was among those that got free and brought the sad news home.
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