HMS Erebus
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 Sounding Line and the ChartThe hammers struck iron at Deptford Dockyard from the first light of February mornings, fastening sheets of hull-armor onto HMS Erebus while the Thames ran brown with winter rain. Workmen heated bolts in coal braziers and drove them through inch-thick plates of Scottish iro…
- The Twelve Coats on the Rocks…nd the crests engraved there: the arms of Franklin’s officers, the heraldic devices that identified men who had dined in the great cabin of HMS Erebus or Terror. He found a silver fork with the initials “F.R.M.C.” (Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier, captain of the Terror, second in command of t…
- The Purchase of the Fox…r in coastal waters, needed reinforcement for ice work. The hull received additional timber sheathing—not the full armor that had protected HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in 1845, but sufficient to withstand grinding pack. These alterations consumed months and further thousands of pounds, drawn…