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The survivors, now led by Franklin's second-in-command, Francis Crozier, and Erebus ' s captain, James Fitzjames, set out for the Canadian mainland and disappeared, presumably having perished. [ 3 ] Pressed by Franklin's wife, Jane , and others, the Admiralty launched a search for the missing expedition in 1848.
∗ Written with the first "s" as an "ſ" in Victorian manner i.e.: "Cloẛsan"¤ First name read as "David" in Cyriax crewlist † This name appears twice in the original list
DNA analysis and a direct descendant. Researchers unearthed Fitzjames’ remains in an area now known as Erebus Bay, located 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Victory Point, where the crew came ...
Melville Island, Canada. The McClintock Arctic expedition of 1857 was a British effort to locate the last remains of Franklin's lost expedition.Led by Francis Leopold McClintock, RN aboard the steam yacht Fox, the expedition spent two years in the region and ultimately returned with the only written message recovered from the doomed expedition.
On 7 September 2014, the wreck of HMS Erebus was discovered by the Canadian Victoria Strait expedition in Wilmot and Crampton Bay, to the west of the Adelaide Peninsula just to the south of King William Island, in 11 m (36 ft) of water. [2]
John Gregory (6 September 1806—c. May 1848) was an English railway and naval engineer. He served as engineer aboard HMS Erebus during the 1845 Franklin Expedition, which sought to explore uncharted parts of what is now Nunavut, including the Northwest Passage, and make scientific observations.
Lt. James Walter Fairholme - daguerreotype by Richard Beard (16 May 1845) James Walter Fairholme (10 January 1821 – after 24 May 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and polar explorer who in 1845 served under Sir John Franklin on the Erebus during the Franklin expedition [1] to discover the Northwest Passage, which ended with the loss of all 129 crewmen in mysterious circumstances.
He has been featured in various documentaries about Franklin, and is a major subject in two books on the search. In 2015, Woodman was a recipient of the Erebus Medal, struck by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society to recognize all participants in the discovery of HMS Erebus, including those in the field and those who worked behind the scenes.