 The Admiralty was not interested, but he was able to convince the gin-magnate Felix Booth to finance this second Arctic expedition, which began in 1829.His ship was the "Victory", a side-wheel steamer with paddles that could be lifted away from the ice and an experimental high-pressure boiler built by John Ericsson.The Victory had been built in 1826 and previously had served as a ferry between Liverpool and the Isle of Man.