Question

Summary of the poem the yarn of the nancy bell by ws gilbert

Answer 1

Yarn of the Nancy Bell is the story of a failed expedition where Captain Sir John Franklin of England went on a long sea voyage with two ships.

Unfortunately both these ships were covered by ice and unable to move causing a shipwreck.

Years later the dead bodies of these Mariners were discovered as rotten bones.

Answer 2

“The Yarn of the Nancy Bell” came about twenty years after a famous failed voyage where Captain Sir John Franklin of England led two ships in an examination of the Northwest Passage; both ships were ice bound and shattered.

All men aboard were lost and some of their bodies were found years later.

The markings on the bones suggest grisly results of their desperate hunger.