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It protects the wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, the two ships of the last expedition of Sir John Franklin, lost in the 1840s during their search for the Northwest Passage and then re-discovered in 2014 and 2016. The site is jointly managed by Parks Canada and the local Inuit. Public access to the site is not permitted.
HMS Erebus was a Hecla-class bomb vessel constructed by the Royal Navy in Pembroke dockyard, Wales, in 1826.The vessel was the second in the Royal Navy named after Erebus, the personification of darkness in Greek mythology.
On 1 October at the House of Commons, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper confirmed the wreck was that of HMS Erebus. [ 111 ] [ 112 ] [ 113 ] A documentary, Hunt for the Arctic Ghost Ship , was produced by Lion Television for Channel 4 's Secret History series in 2015.
James Fitzjames, captain of the HMS Erebus, made one of the handwritten notes on this document left in a stone cairn near Victory Point on King William Island, where the crew came ashore after ...
One of two doomed ships lost long ago trying to discover the mysterious Northwest Passage has been found. In September, Canadian officials announced they'd found a shipwreck they believed belonged ...
On 2 September 2014, the wreck of HMS Erebus, the flagship of the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin, was found in Wilmot and Crampton Bay by a Parks Canada underwater archaeological team. [2]
HMS Erebus (1856) was a 16-gun iron screw floating battery launched in 1856 and sold in 1884. HMS Erebus was an Audacious-class battleship launched in 1864 as HMS Invincible. She was renamed HMS Erebus in 1904, HMS Fisgard II in 1906 and sank in a storm in 1914. HMS Erebus (I02) was an Erebus-class monitor launched in 1916 and broken up in 1947.
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