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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.
Sir James Ross' pillar has not been found and the paper has been transferred to this position which is that in which Sir J. Ross' pillar was erected – Sir John Franklin died on the 11th June, 1847; and the total loss by deaths in the expedition has been to this date 9 officers and 15 men. (Signed) JAMES FITZJAMES, Captain H.M.S. Erebus.
John Downing: Quartermaster Plymouth, Devon: 34 John Murray: Sailmaker Glasgow, Lanarks. 43 James W. Brown: Caulker Deptford, Kent 28 William Smith: Blacksmith Thibnam , Norfolk: 28 James Hart: Leading Stoker Hampstead, Middx: 33 Richard Wall: Cook Hull, Yorks. 45 James Rigden: Captain's Coxswain Upper Deal, Kent 32 John Sullivan: Captain of ...
Graves of William Braine (left), John Torrington (right) and John Hartnell (center). Braine was a part of Sir John Franklin's final expedition to find the Northwest Passage. [ 3 ] The trip was expected to last about three years, so the ships were packed with provisions which included more than 136,000 pounds of flour, 3,684 gallons of high ...
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A fact from John Torrington appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 July 2007. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that when John Torrington's corpse was exhumed 138 years after his death, it was almost perfectly preserved? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/July ...
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 ]
Spoilers ahead for the Season 5 finale. Stop reading if you don't want to know. John Dutton (Kevin Costner) finally received the franchise cornerstone funeral the patriarch deserved in Sunday's ...