Biography
One of the giant personalities of the Arctic he entered marine life as a sealer and merchant seaman at a young age.
He was with Robert Peary on his two expeditions to the Arctic first as master of the Windward and waslater master of Peary's ship Roosevelt in 1908-09 and sailed to Cape Sheridan on Ellesmere Island.
He received the Hubbard Medal of the National Geographic Society for reaching 87 degrees 48 minutes North.
He served as master of the Karluk in 1913-14 on the Canadian Arctic Expedition. After the loss of the Karluk he took the sealing schooner Neptune in 1917 through the ice to rescue Commander Donald MacMillan's Crocker Land Expedition which was stranded at Etah Greenland. Later in life he became a naturalized American.
In 1925 he purchased the fishing schooner Effie M. Morrissey which was built at Essex MA and used it to support 21 expeditions (19 to the Eastern Canadian and Greenland Arctic.) The ship was eventually retired to the Mystic Seaport in Connecticuit as a museum vessel. Bartlett died in New York, in 1946, from pneumonia and his body was buried at Brigus NF.
Military Service
He served briefly as a Lieutenant-Commander in the United States Navy to the end of World War One.
References
McKinlay, William Laird. (1976)
