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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 ...
After Franklin's death in June 1847, Crozier took over. His fate and those of the other expedition members remained a mystery until 1859, when a note written by Crozier and James Fitzjames, captain of the Erebus, was discovered on King William Island during an expedition led by Francis McClintock. Dated 25 April 1848, the note indicated that ...
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
Melville Island, Canada. The McClintock Arctic expedition of 1857 was a British effort to locate the last remains of Franklin's lost expedition.Led by Francis Leopold McClintock, RN aboard the steam yacht Fox, the expedition spent two years in the region and ultimately returned with the only written message recovered from the doomed expedition.
Barretto Junior was launched in June 1818 by Michael Smith at Howrah, Calcutta (modern day Kolkata, West Bengal) for R. Ford & Company, [2] and likely named after the Portuguese-descended Joseph Barretto Junior, of wealthy India-based merchants Barretto & Co. [1] She was initially a cargo ship, measured as 485 tons burthen, and later as 523 gross register tons.
The 372-ton ship was armed with two mortars – one 13 in (330 mm) and one 10 in (254 mm) – and 10 guns. The ship took part in the Ross expedition of 1839–1843, and was abandoned in 1848 during the third Franklin expedition. The sunken wreck was discovered by the Canadian Victoria Strait expedition in September 2014. [3]
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English: Map of the west coast of King William Island depicting confirmed remains of Franklin's Lost Expedition (Note that the location where the ships were abandoned and the site of Victory Point is to a certain extent speculative, see Cyriax 1952.