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A contemporary engraving of the
doomed expedition weathering a
gale in an ice pack

Expedition 19 May 1845

timeline December 1844 January 1845 May 1845 HMS Erebus and HMS
Terror set off from
At the instigation of Sir
Days before setting sail,
Despite Admiralty
John Barrow, second misgivings regarding Franklin, recovering from Greenhithe, Kent. They
From the expedition’s secretary to the Admiralty Franklin’s age, he is given a bout of flu, remonstrates sail for the Orkney Islands
hopeful inception to until 1845, a new expedition the commission to lead the with his wife for placing an taking the North Sea route.
is mounted to map the search for the Northwest embroidered silk Union Jack Franklin is well regarded as
its disastrous Northwest Passage once Passage after Captain James over his body while in bed. a captain by the officers and
disappearance and for all. Ross declines the offer. He declared it a bad omen. crew alike.
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