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After Franklin's death in June 1847, Crozier took over. 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 .
Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier: Captain: Banbridge, Down: 49 Edward Little: First Lieutenant (Commander) Hornsey, Middx. 33 George Henry Hodgson: Second Lieutenant London 28 John Irving: Third Lieutenant Edinburgh: 30 Thomas Blanky: Ice-Master: Whitby, Yorkshire: 44 Frederick John Hornby: First Mate: 26 Robert Thomas: Second Mate Gillies ...
Franklin dies, leaving Crozier in charge of the expedition. Fitzjames becomes captain of Erebus. [141] [unreliable source?] 1847–48 Preparations begin for an overland search for Franklin's expedition, led by Dr. John Rae and Sir John Richardson, while Thomas Edward Laws Moore performs a maritime search aboard HMS Plover.
John Irving was born on Princes Street in Edinburgh, Scotland on 8 February 1815, the fourth son of John Irving, a lawyer who was a member of the Society of Writers to the Signet and childhood friend of Sir Walter Scott, and Agnes Hay, daughter of Colonel Lewis Hay, a noted engineering officer who perished in the 1799 Anglo-Russian Invasion of Holland.
George Henry Hodgson was born 25 January 1817 in London, England, to Rector and future Dean of Carlisle Robert Hogdson and his wife Mary Tucker. [1] His older sister was Henrietta Mildred Hodgson, wife of Oswald Smith and great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II. [2]
Sir James Clark Ross DCL FRS FLS FRAS (15 April 1800 – 3 April 1862) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer of both the northern and southern polar regions. In the Arctic, he participated in two expeditions led by his uncle, John Ross, and in four led by William Edward Parry: in the Antarctic, he led his his own expedition from 1839 to 1843.
Franklin is killed in a botched attempt to bait the animal, and a number of other crewmen are killed as the months progress. Crozier assumes command of the expedition, with Commander James Fitzjames assuming the role of executive officer. Despite some initial tension between them, they gradually become friends as they attempt to deal with the ...
Crozier Island is named after the Irish-born, British naval officer Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier, second-in-command (and commander after Franklin's death) of John Franklin's ill-fated Naval Northwest Passage Expedition, 1845–1848, by Elisha Kent Kane between 1854 and 1855 during his second Grinnell Expedition, after it was sighted by Hans ...