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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.
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.
In August, Anderson and Stewart found a piece of wood inscribed with "Erebus" and another that said "Mr. Stanley" (surgeon aboard Erebus) on Montreal Island in Chantrey Inlet, where the Back River meets the sea.
In September, Canadian officials announced they'd found a shipwreck they believed belonged to Sir John Franklin's expedition to Canadian shipwreck ID'd as Sir Franklin's long-lost Erebus Skip to ...
The scientists found the genetic information matched that of the archaeological sample. James Fitzjames, captain of the HMS Erebus, made one of the handwritten notes on this document left in a ...
On 2 September 2014, the wreck of HMS Erebus, the flagship of the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin, was found in Wilmot and Crampton Bay by a Parks Canada underwater archaeological team. [2]
HMS Erebus (1856) was a 16-gun iron screw floating battery launched in 1856 and sold in 1884. HMS Erebus was an Audacious-class battleship launched in 1864 as HMS Invincible. She was renamed HMS Erebus in 1904, HMS Fisgard II in 1906 and sank in a storm in 1914. HMS Erebus (I02) was an Erebus-class monitor launched in 1916 and broken up in 1947.
An awe-inspiring 3D scan has brought the shipwreck of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton’s HMS Endurance, found in 2022, back to life. ... captain of the HMS Erebus. The ship was part of a ...