Sir Michael Palin and Dan Snow explore the storied history of HMS Terror and Erebus, two bomb ships that were repurposed for ...

"Identification of a Senior Officer from Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage Expedition" by Stenton, Fratpietro and Park ...

Known as "the man who ate his boots" after being forced to eat the leather parts of clothes when near starvationA pair of snow shoes used by Captain John Franklin (1786-1847) on his expedition to ...

Known as "the man who ate his boots" after being forced to eat the leather parts of clothes when near starvationA pair of snow shoes used by Captain John Franklin (1786-1847) on his expedition to ...

John joined the Royal Navy and sailed under the command of his cousin Matthew Flinders to Australia and later travelled to China. Franklin was present at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and in 1819 ...

John’s, which deployed its Thunderfish ... And in that, the exploration of the remains of the Franklin expedition becomes very personal, drilling right down to the individual men on board.

Though Sir John Franklin was a celebrated English explorer with decades of experience, 128 men, and two finely crafted ships, his mission became tragically trapped in ice. A half-century later ...