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Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier FRS FRAS (/ ˈ k r oʊ ʒ ər /; 17 October 1796 – disappeared 26 April 1848) was an Irish officer of the Royal Navy and polar explorer who participated in six expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic.
Read the story of Francis Crozier, a highly regarded researcher and an underappreciated explorer who disappeared 173 years ago.
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.
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Aug 16, 2018 · Crozier was second-in-command to Franklin and appointed captain of the HMS Terror. In 1845 they set sail on what would be one of the greatest tragedies in the history of Polar exploration. Some time into the voyage the Terror and the other ship HMS Erebus got stuck in ice.
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Jul 12, 2011 · In April of 1848, while sitting in his quarters aboard the ice-encased HMS Terror in the Canadian Arctic, Captain Francis Crozier made the fateful decision of a desperate man. His expedition's commander, John Franklin, was dead, the explorers had failed to find the Northwest Passage, and the sea ice that had held Terror and HMS Erebus captive ...
