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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.
∗ 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
On 7 September 2014, the wreck of HMS Erebus was discovered by the Canadian Victoria Strait expedition in Wilmot and Crampton Bay, to the west of the Adelaide Peninsula just to the south of King William Island, in 11 m (36 ft) of water. [2]
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 ...
DNA analysis sheds new light on the fate of the men in Sir John Franklin’s doomed Arctic voyage to explore the Northwest Passage, according to the latest research.
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.
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.
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.