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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.
They started with John Torrington, the first crew member to die. [ 78 ] [ self-published source ] After completing Torrington's autopsy and exhuming and briefly examining the body of John Hartnell, the team, pressed for time and threatened by weather, returned to Edmonton with tissue and bone samples. [ 79 ]
John Downing: Quartermaster Plymouth, Devon: 34 John Murray: Sailmaker Glasgow, Lanarks. 43 James W. Brown: Caulker Deptford, Kent 28 William Smith: Blacksmith Thibnam , Norfolk: 28 James Hart: Leading Stoker Hampstead, Middx: 33 Richard Wall: Cook Hull, Yorks. 45 James Rigden: Captain's Coxswain Upper Deal, Kent 32 John Sullivan: Captain of ...
Graves of William Braine (left), John Torrington (right) and John Hartnell (center). Braine was a part of Sir John Franklin's final expedition to find the Northwest Passage. [ 3 ] The trip was expected to last about three years, so the ships were packed with provisions which included more than 136,000 pounds of flour, 3,684 gallons of high ...
Last week, a man who claimed his girlfriend had died from an overdose was sentenced to 28 years behind bars for killing her. Toby Loughnane, 45, of Melbourne, Australia, was found guilty of the ...
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition is a book by Owen Beattie and John Geiger, first published in 1987 by Bloomsbury Publishing.The book focuses on the dramatic events surrounding the Franklin Expedition of 1845-1848, led by Sir John Franklin, as well as the scientific work and forensic testing on the bodies of three perfectly preserved Victorian seamen 138 years after their ...
Teddi, the 43-year-old daughter of singer-songwriter John Mellencamp, underwent emergency brain surgery last week and in the days since, her loved ones have been by her side and updating fans on ...
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