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On 5 May, the party led by Lieutenant William Hobson discovered the Victory Point Note, which detailed the abandonment of Erebus and Terror, death of Franklin and other crew members, and the decision by the survivors to march south to the mainland. [55]
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.
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.
Erebus officers and Captain Francis Crozier. Top row left to right: Lt. Edward Couch (mate); James Walter Fairholme; Charles Hamilton Osmer (Purser); Charles Frederick Des Voeux (2nd Mate). 2nd row from top Left to right: Francis Crozier (HMS Terror); Sir John Franklin; James Fitzjames. 3rd row from top left to right: Graham Gore (Commander); Stephen Samuel Stanley (Surgeon); 2nd Lt. Henry ...
John Gregory (6 September 1806—c. May 1848) was an English railway and naval engineer. He served as engineer aboard HMS Erebus during the 1845 Franklin Expedition, which sought to explore uncharted parts of what is now Nunavut, including the Northwest Passage, and make scientific observations.
William Braine (1814 – 3 April 1846) was a British explorer. He served as a marine in the Royal Marines.From 1845 he was part of an expedition to find the Northwest Passage, but he died early in the trip and was buried on Beechey Island.
Lt. James Walter Fairholme - daguerreotype by Richard Beard (16 May 1845) James Walter Fairholme (10 January 1821 – after 24 May 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and polar explorer who in 1845 served under Sir John Franklin on the Erebus during the Franklin expedition [1] to discover the Northwest Passage, which ended with the loss of all 129 crewmen in mysterious circumstances.
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. [1]