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HMS Erebus was a Hecla-class bomb vessel constructed by the Royal Navy in Pembroke dockyard, Wales, in 1826.The vessel was the second in the Royal Navy named after Erebus, the personification of darkness in Greek mythology.
The first was Erebus’ chief engineer John Gregory, whose remains were found at the same site. Stenton and his team linked Gregory’s DNA to a living relative in 2021, the study noted.
It protects the wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, the two ships of the last expedition of Sir John Franklin, lost in the 1840s during their search for the Northwest Passage and then re-discovered in 2014 and 2016. The site is jointly managed by Parks Canada and the local Inuit. Public access to the site is not permitted.
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Ross, a captain of the Royal Navy, commanded HMS Erebus.Its sister ship, HMS Terror, was commanded by Ross' close friend, Captain Francis Crozier. [4]The botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker, then aged 23 and the youngest person on the expedition, was assistant-surgeon to Robert McCormick, and responsible for collecting zoological and geological specimens.
One of two doomed ships lost long ago trying to discover the mysterious Northwest Passage has been found. In September, Canadian officials announced they'd found a shipwreck they believed belonged ...