Fitzjames was part of an expedition led by Sir ... became the commander of HMS Erebus once Franklin died, but his ship became ...
"Identification of a Senior Officer from Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage Expedition" by Stenton ... of them have been ...
Abandoning their ships, which had become locked in sea ice (at around 69 degrees north latitude) near King William Island two winters earlier ... These last members of Sir John Franklin’s doomed ...
The only written record ever found of the disastrous Franklin Northwest Passage expedition of 1845-1848 ... erected on the western shore of King William Island, near where Franklin's ships had ...
In the murkiness shrouding the wrecks of the Franklin Expedition, the mysteries ... his men after the ships were beset in ice off King William Island in 1846 and deserted two years later ...