HMS Terror Found (Franklin Expedition)

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[url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/12/hms-terror-wreck-found-arctic-nearly-170-years-northwest-passage-attempt][/url]
The Guardian






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The long-lost ship of British polar explorer Sir John Franklin, HMS Terror, has been found in pristine condition at the bottom of an Arctic bay, researchers have said, in a discovery that challenges the accepted history behind one of polar exploration's deepest mysteries.
HMS Terror and Franklin's flagship, HMS Erebus, were abandoned in heavy sea ice far to the north of the eventual wreck site in 1848, during the Royal Navy explorer's doomed attempt to complete the Northwest Passage.



British ship from 1845 Franklin expedition found by Canada

All 129 men on the Franklin expedition died, in the worst disaster to hit Britain's Royal Navy in its long history of polar exploration. Search parties continued to look for the ships for 11 years after they disappeared, but found no trace, and the fate of the missing men remained an enigma that tantalised generations of historians, archaeologists and adventurers.
Now that mystery seems to have been solved by a combination of intrepid exploration and an improbable tip from an Inuk crewmember.



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AG
Fascinating. Thanks for posting. That is one of the great mysteries of the modern age of exploration. Cool article.
OldArmy71
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AG
Thanks for posting that! Very interesting.
aalan94
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We need to find more ships in the arctic, because it preserves them well. In that one picture, I can clearly see the pins to which the sail-handling ropes are tied. As a Volunteer on the Texas Seaport Museum's Elissa, I used to tie lines to those pins all the time.
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