John Rae
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 Lady’s Memorandum…cked the Admiralty into prolonged, public search, creating conditions for the next, broader wave of voyages and the eventual involvement of John Rae. The hybrid model she established—naval resources supplemented by private funding, official operations validated by public advocacy, instit…
- The Twelve Coats on the RocksIn the spring of 1853, while Lady Jane Franklin’s petition still gathered signatures in London drawing rooms, John Rae stood on the deck of the Prince Albert as she cleared Stromness Harbour in the Orkney Islands on 5 July. He was forty years old, a Hudson’s…
- The Disgrace of the Mess…1854 a clerk carried it to the offices of The Times. The newspaper printed the full text that Tuesday without editorial comment, embedding John Rae’s findings among the shipping news and parliamentary summaries that formed the paper’s routine fare. The document described silver spoons,…