Editing Fox (ship) (section)

=== Early service ===
''Fox'' was a built as a yacht for Sir Richard Sutton, 2nd Baronet at a cost of about £5000. The ship's hull was diagonally planked with Scotch [[larch]] on the inside and East India [[teak]] on the outside, and the two-cylinder auxiliary steam engine of 16 n.h.p. gave a speed of about seven knots.

''Fox'' had made just one cruise to Norway before Sutton's death. After a period of use in the Baltic during the [[Crimean War]], the vessel was laid up in a partly dismantled state at the builders' yards. The executors of Sutton's will sold the ship for £2000 to Lady [[Jane Franklin]], for use in attempting to find her husband, Sir [[John Franklin]], and his expedition.