Vice-Admiral W.J.S. Pullen (1813-1887) was lieutenant on the HMS Plover on its search for Sir John Franklin (1848). T.C. Pullen was master of the HMS North Star on its 1852-1854 search for Franklin. Rear-Admiral H.F. Pullen (Royal Canadian Navy), the grand nephew of W.J.S. and T.C. Pullen, compiled "The Pullen Records", transcriptions of historical records concerning W.J.S. and T.C. Pullen in their separate expeditions to the Arctic on HM ships.