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On board Parks Canada's archeology support barge "Qiniqtiryuaq" beside the wreck of HMS Erebus As of 2019, the wrecks are the subject of archeological research undertaken by Parks Canada . Researchers are using the RV David Thompson , a scientific and research vessel, as living accommodation; and a barge "Qiniqtiryuaq" to support the diving ...
One of two doomed ships lost long ago trying to discover the mysterious Northwest Passage has been found. In September, Canadian officials announced they'd found a shipwreck they believed belonged ...
HMS Erebus was a Hecla-class bomb vessel constructed by the Royal Navy in Pembroke dockyard, Wales, in 1826.The vessel was the second in the Royal Navy named after Erebus, the personification of darkness in Greek mythology.
[114] [115] [116] A documentary, Hunt for the Arctic Ghost Ship, was produced by Lion Television for Channel 4's Secret History series in 2015. [117] [118] In September 2018, Parks Canada announced that Erebus had deteriorated significantly. "An upwards buoyant force acting on the decking combined with storm swell in relatively shallow water ...
The ship sailed to the South China Sea and participated in the First Opium War. The war ended with the Treaty of Nanking , signed on board the Cornwallis in 1842. When Hoar returned to England he was rated as able seaman aboard HMS St. Vincent , which at the time was a depot vessel in Portsmouth Harbour . [ 1 ]
HMS Erebus (1856) was a 16-gun iron screw floating battery launched in 1856 and sold in 1884. HMS Erebus was an Audacious-class battleship launched in 1864 as HMS Invincible. She was renamed HMS Erebus in 1904, HMS Fisgard II in 1906 and sank in a storm in 1914. HMS Erebus (I02) was an Erebus-class monitor launched in 1916 and broken up in 1947.
Ship's Boy: Deptford, Kent 18 Robert Golding: Ship's Boy Deptford, Kent 19 William Aitken ∞: Royal Marines Kenilworth, Surrey 37 John Brown ∞: Able Seaman Robert Carr ∞: Armourer London 23 James Elliot ∞: Sailmaker Woolwich, Kent 20
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.