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  2. Franklin's lost expedition - Wikipedia

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    The survivors, now led by Franklin's second-in-command, Francis Crozier, and Erebus ' s captain, James Fitzjames, set out for the Canadian mainland and disappeared, presumably having perished. [ 3 ] Pressed by Franklin's wife, Jane , and others, the Admiralty launched a search for the missing expedition in 1848.

  3. Personnel of Franklin's lost expedition - Wikipedia

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    ∗ Written with the first "s" as an "ſ" in Victorian manner i.e.: "Cloẛsan"¤ First name read as "David" in Cyriax crewlist † This name appears twice in the original list

  4. Ross expedition - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Charles Frederick Des Voeux - Wikipedia

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    Charles Frederick Des Voeux (c. 1825—after 28 May 1847) was an Irish officer in the British Royal Navy.He served as mate aboard HMS Erebus during the 1845 Franklin Expedition which sought to chart the Canadian Arctic, including the Northwest Passage, and make scientific observations.

  6. John Franklin - Wikipedia

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    Sir John Franklin KCH FRS FLS FRGS (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator. After serving in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, he led two expeditions into the Canadian Arctic and through the islands of the Arctic Archipelago, during the Coppermine expedition of 1819 and the Mackenzie River expedition of 1825, and served as ...

  7. Erebus-class monitor - Wikipedia

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    The Erebus class of warships was a class of 20th century Royal Navy monitors armed with a main battery of two 15-inch /42 Mk 1 guns in a single turret. It consisted of two vessels, Erebus and Terror, named after the two ships lost in the Franklin Expedition. Both were launched in 1916 and saw active service in World War I off the Belgian coast.

  8. McClintock Arctic expedition - Wikipedia

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    Melville Island, Canada. The McClintock Arctic expedition of 1857 was a British effort to locate the last remains of Franklin's lost expedition.Led by Francis Leopold McClintock, RN aboard the steam yacht Fox, the expedition spent two years in the region and ultimately returned with the only written message recovered from the doomed expedition.

  9. Henry Le Vesconte - Wikipedia

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    Henry Thomas Dundas Le Vesconte (c. 1813 – c. 1848) was an English officer of the Royal Navy and polar explorer who from 1845 served under Sir John Franklin as Second Lieutenant (the fourth most senior rank) on the Erebus during the Franklin expedition [2] to discover the Northwest Passage, which ended with the loss of all 129 crewmen in mysterious circumstances.

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