Club Weekly Meeting
Fri, Oct 5th 2018 at 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Ken Bryan will be talking about Franklin's expedition of 1845. In the tangled chronicle of Arctic exploration the Franklin saga stands as a centerpiece. John Franklin was last seen by a whaling ship on 25th June his 2 vessels tethered to an iceberg.
Franklin's lost expedition was a British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. A Royal Navy officer and experienced explorer, Franklin had served on three previous Arctic expeditions, the later two as commanding officer. His fourth and last, undertaken when he was 59, was meant to traverse the last unnavigated section of the Northwest Passage. After a few early fatalities, the two ships became icebound in Victoria Strait, near King William Island in the Canadian Arctic. The entire expedition, comprising 129 men including Franklin, was lost
No one knows how he died or what it was that killed him.. Men and ships combed the Arctic for 12 years before the fate of the expedition was finally unravelled. Franklin in death succeeded where he had failed in life.. The mystery dissappearance elevated him from minor Arctic hero to near sainthood.
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