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Sir john franklin expedition11/21/2023 ![]() The two vessels and crew were never seen again. The ships sailed from London in May 1845 and were last sighted by two whaling ships at the entrance to Lancaster Sound on the west side of Baffin Bay in July. ![]() The leader of the expedition, Sir John Franklin, had considerable Arctic experience, having been despatched twice by the Navy to search for the Northwest Passage in the 1820s. Expensively refurbished to withstand Arctic extremes, they carried equipment and provisions to survive for three years. It consisted of 129 officers and men aboard two vessels, ‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror’. Carrying the weight of great expectation and hope amongst the British public, it was the best equipped, best-prepared Arctic expedition ever mounted. Sir John Franklin’s expedition was organised by the British Admiralty in an attempt to discover the final stretch of the Northwest passage which linked the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to the north of Canada. They display items found on King William Island, Northern Canada by the British Franklin Search Expedition in 1859 during its search to determine the fate of Sir John Franklin’s expedition to discover the Northwest Passage. These stereoscopic slides were produced and published as a boxed set by Lieutenant Cheyne in 1861. Dissertations & Theses by SPRI studentsīritish Franklin Search Expedition, 1857-59.
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