2016. The HMS Terror was found lying on the seabed under 48 metres of water in Terror Bay, far from the planned search area. The discovery was made when the Arctic Research Foundation's ship made a detour to Terror Bay to follow up on a recollection made by one of the crew.
Not a single man survived the journey although some did reach the mainland, the bodies of thirty men being subsequently found near the Great Fish River.
We may never know exactly what happened to the crews of Erebus and Terror. The working theory remains that they died, one by one, succumbing to scurvy and exposure as they slogged vainly over land in search of safety.
History. On 7 September 2014 the wreck of HMS Erebus was discovered by the Canadian Victoria Strait expedition in Wilmot and Crampton Bay, to the west of the Adelaide Peninsula just to the south of King William Island, in 11 metres (36 ft) of water.
"It's probably the most remarkable find of the summer," said Harris, one of the Parks Canada team of archaeologist divers who have been excavating Franklin's two lost ships since they were found under the Arctic seas.
For more than 170 years, the HMS Terror rested beneath the frigid waters of the Canadian Arctic Ocean holding the secrets to an infamously fatal expedition — until a sunny day earlier this month, when a little robot plunged into the sea to try to find them.
In 2014 and 2016, the wrecks of HMS Erebus and Terror were finally discovered, shedding new light on the much-debated fate of Franklin's final expedition. Further dives conducted by underwater archaeologists from Parks Canada in collaboration with the Inuit Heritage Trust have revealed even more fascinating finds.
29 November–10 December 1979: Operation Overdue: Antarctica
By 10 December the site investigation and recovery operation was complete. Disaster Victim Identification teams recovered 114 substantially intact bodies, 133 bags of human remains, and countless personal belongings.
At the conclusion of the inquest, on 30 January, the coroner found that no one could have survived the crash, and confirmed that the 44 people who had either not been positively identified or whose bodies had not been recovered had been on the flight.
95. Francis Crozier, one of the most experienced Arctic and Antarctic explorers, died during Sir John Franklin's tragic final Arctic exploring expedition.
In the end, the bodies of more than 30 crewmen from the ships were found on King William Island. Most are still buried there, although two were returned to Britain. Lieutenant John Irving was identified from personal effects and was buried in Dean cemetery, Edinburgh, in 1881.
Finally the ships set sail for the North-West Passage in 1845 and were last seen by the whaler Enterprise on 28 July 1845 secured to an iceberg.
Provisions to sustain the 134 crew members for three years were sealed with lead solder, which leached into the food and probably caused lead poisoning among the crew.
The wartime sinking of the German Wilhelm Gustloff in January 1945 in World War II by a Soviet Navy submarine, with an estimated loss of about 9,400 people, remains the deadliest isolated maritime disaster ever, excluding such events as the destruction of entire fleets like the 1274 and 1281 storms that are said to ...
The Honda Point disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships.
The beginning of The Terror, like Dan Simmons novel, is based on the true history of the two ships, the real crew and how they got stuck in the ice. However, where the true story of The Terror ends is when the records of Franklin, Crozier and their men disappear.
On 4 December 1971, this airplane, known as "321," crashed during takeoff at a remote site in East Antarctica.... Above, the excavation team removes dense, concrete-like snow around the airplane's fuselage. coast. About 100 meters away was a 9-meter trench, the airplane's resting spot for more than 15 years.
It regularly emits plumes of gas and steam, and occasionally spits out rock (bombs) in strombolian eruptions. At least one lava lake has churned within its caldera since 1972. Mount Erebus is thought to be the southernmost active volcano in the world.
Debate raged over who was at fault for the accident. While the chief inspector of air accidents attributed the disaster to pilot error, Justice Peter Mahon's Royal Commission of Inquiry placed the blame on Air New Zealand and its systems. The controversy continues. The Erebus disaster has been remembered in many ways.
The HMS Erebus wreck, rediscovered in September 2014, sits at the bottom of the sea near the hamlet of Uqsuqtuuq (Gjoa Haven), Nunavut.
“The fatal end was inevitable” The crews of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were clearly ingesting a staggering amount of lead—but apparently no more than their families back home. That makes it highly unlikely that lead poisoning is what finished off Franklin's crews.
Post-Heresy
After the defeat of Horus at the Battle of Terra, Erebus fled into the Eye of Terror with the rest of his Legion. He is currently a member of the Dark Council, the ruling body of Sicarus and is often engaging in power struggles for control of the Legion with Kor Phaeron.
Franklin expedition, British expedition (1845–48), led by Sir John Franklin, to find the Northwest Passage through Canada and to record magnetic information as a possible aid to navigation. The expedition ended in one of the worst disasters in the history of polar exploration.
The many searches for the missing explorer John Franklin led to the discovery of all the Arctic waterways. The knowledge gained from these voyages helped Amundsen to finally cross the Northwest Passage in 1903-06.
Terror was trapped by ice near Southampton Island, and did not reach Repulse Bay. At one point, the ice forced her 12 m (39 ft) up the face of a cliff. She was trapped in the ice for ten months. In the spring of 1837, an encounter with an iceberg further damaged the ship.