HMS Terror
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 Chart…on, sheathing the vessel’s bow against the ice that waited in Baffin Bay. The noise carried across the river to Woolwich, where sister ship HMS Terror underwent the same transformation. These were not new vessels. Terror had bombarded Fort McHenry during the War of 1812, her mortar decks s…
- The Comfort of Protocol…finally—after Franklin’s death in June 1847—to captain of the ship and second-in-command of the expedition under Captain Francis Crozier of HMS Terror. His career traced the arc that the Admiralty’s protocol was designed to protect: the promising officer, distinguished service in Mesopotam…
- The Purchase of the Fox…ters, 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 from the Frank…