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Age (as of 1845) Sir John Franklin: Captain: Lincolnshire: 59 James Fitzjames: Commander: London: 31 Graham Gore: First Lieutenant (Commander) Plymouth: 35 Henry Thomas Dundas Le Vesconte: Second Lieutenant Devon: 31 James Walter Fairholme: Third Lieutenant Perth, Scotland: 24 James Reid: Ice-Master: Aberdeen: 45 Robert Orme Sargent: First Mate ...
Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic and to record magnetic data to help determine whether ...
John Hartnell was born in Gillingham, Kent to a family of shipbuilders. [2] His parents were Thomas and Sarah (maiden name: Friar, born 1796) Hartnell who were married at Frindsbury, in the Medway Towns area of Kent, on 9 October 1815, and with whom he was living in Gillingham at the time of the census of 1841. [3]
Member of Franklin's lost expedition; identification of remains via DNA analysis in 2021 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 ...
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On 19th May 1845 the expedition left Greenhithe to seek a passage through the frozen archipelagos of northern Canada through to the Pacific. In April 1848, the crews of the two ships — which were beset by ice off King William Island — deserted the ships and set out across the ice dragging the ship's boats but they all perished in the attempt.
The fate of Franklin’s lost expedition is likely to remain a source of fascination, but piecing together the details of what happened will require a lot more information, including from the two ...
Sir John Franklin’s doomed expedition to the Arctic captivated the Victorian public with its mysterious disappearance, fruitless rescue missions and gory tales of cannibalism.