Francis Leopold McClintock
Books
- Erebus and Terror The Search for Franklin and the Evidence of the Ice · Liszt Think
In May 1845, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror sailed into Baffin Bay and vanished.
- The Purchase of the Fox…, would find these preparations already in train, the vessel becoming what the mission required. The man chosen to lead this enterprise was Francis Leopold McClintock, forty-seven years old in 1857, a captain of moderate seniority with no independent command of significance. His qualifications were operat…
- A Sled on the Horizon…the space inside her bulwarks, the drift piled against her sides, the narrow field of visibility where frozen breath hung in lantern light. Francis Leopold McClintock had brought her here. In April 1857, at Lady Jane Franklin’s request, he had agreed to take command—this after the Admiralty had abandoned…
- The Seal-Skin BootsThe precise, hard-won understanding of the Arctic’s logistical barriers now sat with him, pressuring him to devise a new approach. Francis Leopold McClintock, commanding the Fox from winter quarters at Port Kennedy, had watched his first sledging party return from King William Island with frostbi…