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Jared Harris as Captain Francis Crozier, Commanding Officer, HMS Terror, and expedition second-in-command [8] Tobias Menzies [9] as Commander James Fitzjames, First Officer, HMS Erebus [10] Paul Ready as Assistant Surgeon Harry Goodsir, HMS Erebus; Adam Nagaitis as Caulker's Mate Cornelius Hickey, HMS Terror; Ian Hart as Ice Master Thomas ...
Commander James Fitzjames. The expedition's third in command and the de facto captain of Erebus prior to Franklin's death. He is an upper-class officer, described as handsome and charming. At the start of the novel, Crozier is wary of Fitzjames and jealous of the apparent favouritism that is shown towards him within the Royal Navy.
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 ...
His fate and those of the other expedition members remained a mystery until 1859, when a note written by Crozier and James Fitzjames, captain of the Erebus, was discovered on King William Island during an expedition led by Francis McClintock. Dated 25 April 1848, the note indicated that the ships—stuck in thick pack ice—had been abandoned.
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 Maintop Gillingham, Kent 24 Robert Sinclair: Captain of Foretop Kirkwall, Orkney: 25 Joseph ...
James Fitzjames (27 July 1813 – c. May 1848) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer.. The illegitimate son of a man with ties to the Navy, Fitzjames distinguished himself in an ill-conceived expedition to establish a steamship line in Mesopotamia in the 1830s, and in combat during the Egyptian–Ottoman War and the First Opium War.
An unbroken Y-chromosome DNA match was made from a living descendant of Fitzjames's great-grandfather James Gambier; the DNA donor, Nigel Gambier, is second cousin five times removed to Fitzjames. By doing genealogical research, historian Fabiënne Tetteroo determined that Nigel Gambier was an eligible match for Fitzjames.
On 26 June 1845, while at sea before landing in Greenland, James Fitzjames reported in his letters that Hodgson was ill, but had recovered by the evening. [10] On 10 July 1845, in the Whalefish Islands, Fitzjames reported that he, Fairholme, and Hodgson counted two-hundred-eighty icebergs in the water from atop a nearby hill. [ 11 ]