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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 ]
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 ...
John Hartnell was born in Gillingham, Kent to a family of shipbuilders. [2] His parents were Thomas and Sarah (maiden name: Friar, born 1796) Hartnell who were married at Frindsbury, in the Medway Towns area of Kent, on 9 October 1815, and with whom he was living in Gillingham at the time of the census of 1841. [3]
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 ...
Following Ritter's death, Yasbek founded the John Ritter Foundation to help raise awareness about aortic dissection.. While appearing on the 3rd Hour of TODAY on Feb. 7, 2024 for Heart Health ...
John Amos’s cause of death has been confirmed, just over a month after he died on August 21 aged 84. The Good Times actor died from congestive heart failure at a Los Angeles hospital, according ...
John Capodice, an Army veteran-turned-actor known for roles in "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and "General Hospital," has died. He was 83. His death on Monday was announced in an obituary on the ...