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2 days ago · Two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, set out from England in May of that year under the command of the esteemed Captain Sir John Franklin, an experienced navigator of the Arctic. Their ambitious goal: to finally conquer the elusive Northwest Passage, a sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the icy maze of the Canadian ...
May 20, 2024 · On this day in history, May 20, 1845, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, with 134 men aboard, left Greenhithe, Kent, in England, beginning the disastrous Franklin expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All hands are lost.
May 9, 2024 · Scott Croker. Posted: May 8, 2024 | Last updated: May 9, 2024. Bettmann/Getty Images. After Nearly 200 Years Buried On The Ocean Floor, This Is What Scientists Found Left Of HMS Terror. HMS...
In September 2014, it was announced that a Canadian Expedition team had discovered the wreck of HMS Erebus at the bottom of Wilmot and Crampton Bay. Two years later, the perfectly preserved wreck of HMS Terror was found to the south of King William Island in Terror Bay by the Artic Research Foundation.
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May 14, 2024 · The ship, along with its companion vessel the HMS Erebus, mysteriously disappeared, leaving no trace of its whereabouts for over a century. It was only in 2014 and 2016 that the wrecks of these two renowned ships were finally found.
4 days ago · In short, the Terror and the Erebus left England to be last seen by a whaler merely two months after the start of the trip.
1 day ago · Terror and its sister ship HMS Erebus had been last seen by whalers entering Baffin Bay in August 1845. The hull of Erebus was located on the bottom of Victoria Strait in 2014, and the Terror...
