For the first time, researchers have identified the remains of a sailor from the doomed 1845 Franklin expedition of the fabled Northwest Passage.
Tag: Franklin, John (1786-1847)
Shipwreck Yields Artifacts of Missing Seafarers in Canada’s Arctic
The artifacts were recovered from the H.M.S. Erebus, which set off from England in 1845 with its sister ship, the H.M.S. Terror, before both vanished.