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The British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition, also known as Franklin's lost ... a complete list of the ships' muster rolls. [1] HMS Erebus. Name Rank ...
Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic and to record magnetic data to help determine whether ...
British expedition to explore the Gambia River and the hinterland of Africa's west coast. Bass expedition: George Bass: 1803 Pacific Ocean British expedition to Tahiti, and possibly to the Spanish colony of Chile, before returning to the Sydney colony. Franklin's lost expedition: John Franklin: 1845 Victoria Strait (Canadian Arctic)
1850–1851: First Grinnell expedition led by Edwin De Haven, the first American search for the members of Franklin's lost expedition, finds the graves of crew members John Torrington, William Braine and John Hartnell on Beechey Island; 1851: William Kennedy leads a search expedition for Franklin in the Prince Albert, sponsored by Lady Franklin
She was used as a police ship from 1837 and was broken up in 1857. HMS Investigator (1823) was a survey sloop purchased in 1823. Her fate is unknown. HMS Investigator (1848) was a discovery vessel purchased in 1848 to search for Sir John Franklin's lost expedition, and abandoned in the Arctic in 1853.
The fate of Franklin’s lost expedition is likely to remain a source of fascination, but piecing together the details of what happened will require a lot more information, including from the two ...
Resolute became trapped in the ice searching for Franklin's lost expedition and was abandoned in 1854. Recovered by an American whaler, she was returned to Queen Victoria in 1856. Timbers from the ship were later used to construct the Resolute desk which was presented to the President of the United States and is located in the White House Oval ...
Barretto Junior was a wood-hulled barque built in Calcutta in 1818 that served as a passenger-cargo ship and expeditionary support vessel as well as a transport for both troops and convicts. She is best known for supplying Franklin's lost expedition. [1]