By October, the men were wintering in Thank God Harbor, Greenland, and making preparations for the trip to the Pole. Hall returned to the ship from an exploratory sledging journey to a fjord he named Newman Bay and promptly fell ill. Before he died, he accused members of the crew of orchestrating his murder, an accusation especially directed at Bessels. On the way southward, nineteen members of the expedition became separated from the ship and drifted on an ice floe for six months and before being rescued. The damaged "Polaris" was run aground and wrecked near Etah in October 1872. The remaining men were able to survive the winter and were rescued the following summer.