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It is a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition, on HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, to the Arctic, in 1845–1848, to locate the Northwest Passage. In the novel, while Franklin and his crew are plagued by starvation and illness, and forced to contend with mutiny and cannibalism , they are stalked across the bleak Arctic ...
Jared Harris as Captain Francis Crozier, Commanding Officer, HMS Terror, and expedition second-in-command [8] Tobias Menzies [9] as Commander James Fitzjames, First Officer, HMS Erebus [10] Paul Ready as Assistant Surgeon Harry Goodsir, HMS Erebus; Adam Nagaitis as Caulker's Mate Cornelius Hickey, HMS Terror; Ian Hart as Ice Master Thomas ...
Francis Crozier was born in Banbridge, County Down, in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland.He was the eleventh of thirteen children, and the fifth son of solicitor George Crozier, who named him after his friend Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Earl of Moira.
The search by Europeans for a western shortcut by sea from Europe to Asia began with the voyages of Portuguese and Spanish explorers such as Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama and Christopher Columbus in the 15th century.
Captain's Coxwain Portsea, Hants 33 Thomas R. Farr: Captain of the Maintop Deptford, Kent 32 Harry Peglar: Captain of the Foretop London, Middx. 37 William Goddard: Captain of the Hold Gt. Yarmouth, Norfolk: 29 Cornelius Hickey: Caulker's Mate: Limerick, Ireland: 24 Thomas Jopson: Captain's Steward Marylebone, Middx. 27 Thomas Armitage: Gun ...
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.
Captain Terror, the leader of the Car Acrobatic Team, is shown as an arrogant driver in the manga, sabotaging races for his own benefit. His arrogance gets the best of him, and he gets severely injured in an explosion after not heeding Speed's warning about his car leaking oil.
By 1940, he was a captain commanding the "Moroccan company", a unit of "good shots and good skiers" who had all been decorated for bravery. A contemporary news report described the unit as having achieved "startling victories in this sector" during the war.