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Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic and to record magnetic data to help determine whether ...
With ice-strengthened vessels that had already proven their worth in the Antarctic, the Franklin Expedition was the best-equipped assault on the Passage ever launched.
Franklin expedition, British expedition (1845–48), led by Sir John Franklin, to find the Northwest Passage through Canada and to record magnetic information as a possible aid to navigation. The expedition ended in one of the worst disasters in the history of polar exploration.
In 1848, the Franklin expedition’s two ships, H.M.S. Erebus and H.M.S. Terror, disappeared with all their crew while searching for the Northwest Passage. Their fate is one of the enduring...
Franklin’s expedition set sail from Greenhithe, Kent, on the morning of 9 May 1845. The ships first traveled to Stromness, Orkney Islands, in northern Scotland, and then to Greenland with the help of HMS Rattler and the transport ship BarettoJunior.
But even as study of the wrecks continues, the Franklin Expedition remains shrouded in mystery. What was the exact nature of Franklin‘s death, which prompted his men to bury him at sea? Why did the crew wait years to abandon ship, only to attempt an overland escape in winter with minimal supplies?
The identification of remains from the ill-fated Franklin expedition has shed light on the horrific toll the Arctic voyage took on its crew—and specifically on the expedition’s third-in-command.
The Franklin Expedition, led by Sir John Franklin in 1845, was a British voyage of Arctic exploration that aimed to navigate the last unnavigated section of the Northwest Passage. The expedition consisted of two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and a crew of 129 men.
On a Monday morning in May 1845, two ships, the Erebus and the Terror, set out from Greenhithe, England, to chart a northwest passage to India and China. They departed with 134 crew members...
In 1845, a British expedition sailed into the harsh Canadian Arctic, seeking scientific knowledge and the fabled North-West Passage. Professor of naval history Andrew Lambert traces the ill-fated final voyage of Captain Sir John Franklin.