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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 ...
John Downing: Quartermaster Plymouth, Devon: 34 John Murray: Sailmaker Glasgow, Lanarks. 43 James W. Brown: Caulker Deptford, Kent 28 William Smith: Blacksmith Thibnam , Norfolk: 28 James Hart: Leading Stoker Hampstead, Middx: 33 Richard Wall: Cook Hull, Yorks. 45 James Rigden: Captain's Coxswain Upper Deal, Kent 32 John Sullivan: Captain of ...
Image credits: Old-time Photos #33 John Candy And Dan Aykroyd Together On The Set Of The Great Outdoors In 1987. ... #42 Rare Photo Showing Niagara Falls Completely Frozen Over In The Year 1911.
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 ...
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A man found frozen in a Pennsylvania cave in 1977 has finally been identified, closing the book on a nearly 50-year-long mystery. The Berks County Coroner’s Office identified the remains of the ...