John Franklin
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…y Sir John Barrow as a potential leader of an expedition to the Northwest Passage, but was instead named as captain of HMS Erebus under Sir John Franklin. He had survived the Euphrates disaster, where boiler explosions and mismanagement had killed more men than enemy action, and had emerged w…
- A Distant and Frozen Sea…season transit of the Northwest Passage if ice permitted—the same ice that would receive Dannett’s unremarkable observation on 26 July. Sir John Franklin, fifty-nine years old, commanded from the Erebus. His second, Captain Francis Crozier, held the Terror. Between them lay four previous Arct…
- The Machinery of Unease…ence, exactly, but a system calibrated to manage risk through scheduled intervals rather than imaginative dread. The Admiralty had sent Sir John Franklin north with no requirement to report his position, no rendezvous point, no contingency for silence. The assumption embedded in the sailing o…