Anouncement today from Canada that they have found one of Franklin's ships. They have been searching with side-on sonar since 2008. It took that long, but they have found one,on the ocean bottom, reasonably intoact. Not sure which yet.
Of course the ships were empy when they sank. The men had straggled off in groups, to die of any number of causes: lead poisoning, exposure, scurvy, exhaustion.
They never found what they were sent to look for. They never came home. But they are not forgotten.
Franklin bridged the Age of Sail with the age of actic exploration. He had been a signal midshipman on Bellorephon during Traflagar.
Anyway, here is the link:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/found-one-lost-ship-from-the-franklin-expedition-1.1998353
Of course the ships were empy when they sank. The men had straggled off in groups, to die of any number of causes: lead poisoning, exposure, scurvy, exhaustion.
They never found what they were sent to look for. They never came home. But they are not forgotten.
Franklin bridged the Age of Sail with the age of actic exploration. He had been a signal midshipman on Bellorephon during Traflagar.
Anyway, here is the link:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/found-one-lost-ship-from-the-franklin-expedition-1.1998353
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And later this month, a memorial to John Rae will be unveiled in Westminster Abbey.
Dave
When I read the news this morning the first person I thought of was Crozier, and the second person I thought of was you.
They tried so hard to get home, and it all went so wrong.
They are going to send a robot camera down to the ship to have a look inside. Then, presumably we will know which ship it is. Not that it matters, really.
Edited at 2014-09-10 01:23 pm (UTC)