James Clark Ross
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…se were not new vessels. Terror had bombarded Fort McHenry during the War of 1812, her mortar decks shaking with recoil; Erebus had carried James Clark Ross through Antarctic blizzards between 1839 and 1843, charting magnetic variations while her reinforced hull absorbed pressures that had crush…
- A Distant and Frozen Sea…ntested under polar conditions. No one questioned Franklin’s age, or his years away from sea command. The Admiralty’s selection of him over James Clark Ross—younger, more recently Arctic-experienced—went unmentioned, though it had been controversial in the small world of naval exploration. The l…
- The Machinery of Unease…l. The machinery of planning could only process the information it had been designed to receive. In November 1847, the Admiralty approached James Clark Ross. The approach was indirect, almost embarrassed. Ross was the most experienced Arctic navigator alive, the discoverer of the North Magnetic…