The Discovery of Franklin's Lost Ship

• Main Author: Bates, Colin
• Other Authors: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
• Format: Moving Image (Video)
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Environment; History; Maritime; Victoria Strait Expedition; Northwest Passage; Victoria Strait; Northwest passage
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/61691

In 1845, the two ships of the Franklin Expedition, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, set sail from England on a mission to explore the Northwest Passage. The following year, the ships became trapped in ice and the entire crew was lost. The fate of Franklin’s crew and ships remained one of Canada’s greatest...