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- 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…entered the file, the connection was established. In April 1857, at Lady Jane Franklin’s request, McClintock agreed to take command of the Fox and led a 25-man crew in a new search for Franklin’s lost expedition in the area west of Repulse Bay. The lag between her first proposal an…
- The Purchase of the Fox…the ink still wet when Lady Jane Franklin’s agent counted out banknotes for a pleasure yacht that would never cruise the Channel again. The Fox changed hands for £2, 000. Oak and brass and a compact steam engine were part of the deal; so was the possibility of continuing what offici…
- A Sled on the Horizon…nd faded. What replaced it, months later and two thousand miles north, was the grinding of sea-ice against a wooden hull locked fast in the Fox Channel, and the sound of men hauling rope and canvas in darkness that lasted sixteen hours of the twenty-four. The Fox had reached her win…