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John Shaw Torrington (1825 – 1 January 1846) was a Royal Navy stoker. He was part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition to chart unexplored areas of what is now Nunavut, Canada , find the Northwest Passage , and make scientific observations.
They started with John Torrington, the first crew member to die. [77] [self-published source] After completing Torrington's autopsy and exhuming and briefly examining the body of John Hartnell, the team, pressed for time and threatened by weather, returned to Edmonton with tissue and bone samples. [78]
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition is a book by Owen Beattie and John Geiger, first published in 1987 by Bloomsbury Publishing.The book focuses on the dramatic events surrounding the Franklin Expedition of 1845-1848, led by Sir John Franklin, as well as the scientific work and forensic testing on the bodies of three perfectly preserved Victorian seamen 138 years after their ...
Exhumation of John Torrington, John Hartnell and William Braine in 1984 and 1986 Owen Beattie (born 3 June 1949) is a Canadian professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta . Beattie gained international attention in 1984 for his investigation into the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin , which had left England in 1845 searching for ...
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Three headstones (L-R) commemorate John Torrington, William Braine and John Hartnell of the Franklin Expedition. A fourth headstone marks the grave of a sailor named Thomas Morgan who came later in a Franklin search expedition and died at the camp. Note: Image is a composite of four separate images - one of each headstone at the Fraanklin Camp ...