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Francis Crozier appears as a character and the primary narrator of the 2007 best-selling novel, The Terror by Dan Simmons, a fictionalized account of Franklin's lost expedition, as well as the 2018 television adaptation, where Crozier is portrayed by Jared Harris.
Francis Crozier: The Irish explorer who disappeared 173 years ago. In 1848, the crew members aboard the aptly named HMS Terror were fighting for survival. The two ships that made up their expedition had been stuck in Arctic ice for nearly two years. Outside, blizzards lasted for weeks on end.
May 16, 2022 · Francis Crozier was an Arctic explorer of great skill and bravery. His disappearance with his ship and crew and the ordeal that followed has been a subject of mystery and fascination since Victorian times.
Jun 1, 2017 · After Franklin’s death in 1847, second-in-command Captain Francis Crozier took over the expedition. The Banbridge, County Down-born hero, his two ships and entire crew vanished in the frozen...
Oct 20, 2023 · Francis Crozier, second in command, was a skilled sailor, yet had faced challenges in his naval career as an Irishman. At the time of the expedition, the Great Irish Famine was beginning, and Crozier, hailing from County Down, saw this mission as an opportunity to make his name.
The present book is the only substantial biography of Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier, an officer in the Royal Navy, who participated in William Edward Parry’s 1821–23 and 1824–25 expeditions to find the Northwest Passage, in Parry’s North Pole expedition of 1827, in the Cove expedition of 1836 under James Clark Ross, in Ross’ expedition to the Ant...
May 9, 2019 · An interview with Dr David Murphy of Maynooth University on Captain Francis Crozier, one of the most experienced Polar Explorers of the 19th century who was largely forgotten about after a...
