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HMS Terror was a Vesuvius-class bomb ship built over two years at the Davy shipyard in Topsham in south Devon, for the Royal Navy. Her deck was 31 m (102 ft) long, and the ship measured 325 tons burthen. The vessel was armed with two heavy mortars and ten cannon, and was launched in June 1813. [2]
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 ...
Aug 28, 2019 · In 1845, seasoned naval commander Sir John Franklin set out to find the Northwest Passage aboard two ships, the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus. The Terror, in particular, was quite an impressive ship. She was initially built as a bomb vessel and participated in multiple skirmishes in the War of 1812.
Aug 29, 2019 · Marine archaeologists explore the HMS Terror on the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean. To get a look inside the ship, divers deployed a remotely operated vehicle, or ROV.
Archaeologists exploring the shipwrecks of HMS Erebus and Terror have recovered over 350 objects from the lost Franklin expedition.
Oct 20, 2023 · In 1845, the aptly-named HMS Terror along with the HMS Erebus set off from Britain towards what is now Nunavut in Northern Canada in a quest to discover the fabled Northwest Passage – a navigable Arctic route linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
HMS Terror was built in Topsham, Devon, and launched in June 1813. The ship was a bomb vessel, with an extremely strong hull, built to withstand the impact of explosions. Terror began its career as a ship of war, involved in several battles of the War of 1812 against the United States.
Aug 30, 2019 · Aug. 30, 2019. About 170 years ago, a pair of English naval ships and their crew vanished while exploring in the Canadian arctic. That disappearance, the basis for the first season of the AMC...
Sep 13, 2016 · With information supplied by an Inuit hunter living in the community, explorers from a Canadian non-profit organization, the Arctic Research Foundation, have located H.M.S. Terror, one of two...
Sep 15, 2016 · HMS Terror, a long-lost ship that vanished while searching for the Northwest Passage, sparking one of the world’s great maritime mysteries, has been found almost 170 years on.
