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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 ...
Still owned by Somes, in 1845 Iden Huggins was appointed master of Barretto Junior. [14] Royal Navy lieutenant Edward Griffiths was put in charge of the ship on 18 April 1845, and placed under orders of John Franklin at the Woolwich Dockyard, to help preparation for his expedition to chart the Northwest Passage. [14]
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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.
Sir John Franklin, the leader of the lost 1845 expedition. In 1845, a lavishly equipped two-ship expedition led by Sir John Franklin sailed to the Canadian Arctic to chart the last unknown swaths of the Northwest Passage. Confidence was high, as they estimated there was less than 500 km (310 mi) remaining of unexplored Arctic mainland coast.
The expedition reported this information on its return to Britain, making it the first to bring any news about the Franklin expedition since 1845. [2] [7] Of the reaction, historian Ian Stone writes: The reception accorded Forsyth was all that he could have desired, although the Franklin ménage was furious at his early return.
Owen Beattie (born 3 June 1949) is a Canadian professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta.. Beattie gained international attention in 1984 for his investigation into the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin, which had left England in 1845 searching for the Northwest Passage.
The images, taken before Franklin’s doomed expedition to the Arctic in 1845, are now among the most expensive daguerreotypes ever sold at auction.