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The most meaningful outcome of the Franklin expedition was the mapping of several thousand miles of hitherto unsurveyed coastline by expeditions searching for Franklin's lost ships and crew. As Richard Cyriax noted, "the loss of the expedition probably added much more [geographical] knowledge than its successful return would have done". [156]
The First Grinnell expedition of 1850 was the first American effort, financed by Henry Grinnell, to determine the fate of the lost Franklin Northwest Passage expedition. Led by Lieutenant Edwin De Haven , the team explored the accessible areas along Franklin's proposed route.
Name Rank Origin Age (as of 1845) Sir John Franklin: Captain: Lincolnshire: 59 James Fitzjames: Commander: London: 31 Graham Gore: First Lieutenant (Commander)
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)
In 1850, Forsyth volunteered to command the first of Lady Franklin's privately-funded searches for Sir John's lost expedition. After gaining permission from the Admiralty on 27 April 1850, Forsyth took command of the Prince Albert , a schooner purchased by Lady Franklin.
The expedition found traces of Franklin's first winter camp on Beechey Island. During the winter months, from October 1850 to March 1851, Second Master George F. McDougall, from Resolute and Lieutenant Sherard Osborn of Intrepid published five accounts in The Illustrated Arctic News , in what the editors identified as the "Barrow Strait".
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He was recruited in 1850 as an interpreter by the crew of the British survey barque HMS Assistance during the search for John Franklin's lost Arctic expedition. He guided the ship to Wolstenholme Fjord to investigate rumors of a massacre of Franklin's crew, but only found the corpses of local Inughuit and crew from an unrelated British vessel ...