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Erebus & Terror Files: Fraser's Patent Firehearth and Coppers
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Erebus and Terror Files. This blog is intended as a very occasional series of rambling notes documenting my thoughts and original research relating to the 1845 Franklin Expedition. Monday, 30 March 2015. Fraser's Patent Firehearth and Coppers. Inspired by the recent post. On the building HMS Terror blog here are a few images to explain my current thinking about the galley stoves of Erebus and Terror. The various parts of the galley stove and its attachments. The best example I have found of a contemporar...
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Starvation Cove: July 2015
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Mother Nature could probably not produce a more desolate spot on this wide Earth than that where the last survivors of the Franklin expedition found their end. - Heinrich Klutschak 1881. Sunday, July 12, 2015. A great site by a man building a museum quality, 1:48 scale, model of HMS Terror. The site includes excellent plans of HMS Terror as she was in 1845 along with details of the techniques used in creating the model. Watch the construction progress under the supervision "mini-Crozier.".
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VISIONS OF THE NORTH: A Well-worn Skull
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VISIONS OF THE NORTH. The Terrors of the Frozen Zone, Past and Present. Sunday, June 28, 2015. The news that one of the skulls found at the site of the Schwatka reburial at Erebus Bay on King William Island, having been subjected to facial reconstruction, is said by some to resemble James Reid, the Ice Master of Sir John Franklin's ship HMS "Erebus," has reverberated around the world, and rightly so. How can I be so sure? Photograph © 1994 Andrew Gregg. 169; 1994 Andrew Gregg. In 1997, the two crania on ...
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VISIONS OF THE NORTH: Credit where Credit is Due (Part 1)
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VISIONS OF THE NORTH. The Terrors of the Frozen Zone, Past and Present. Saturday, July 18, 2015. Credit where Credit is Due (Part 1). Paddy Gibson and Inuit, Richardson Island, Coronation Gulf, Sept. 1930. Expeditions prior to Parks Canada's entering the field in 2008. Searches, though more sporadic, continued through the 1950's, with Paul Fenimore Cooper walking King William in preparation for his book, Island of the Lost. In 1967, a military exercise, "Operation Franklin" - the only government-sponsore...
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VISIONS OF THE NORTH: Mercy Ann Hall
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VISIONS OF THE NORTH. The Terrors of the Frozen Zone, Past and Present. Tuesday, March 13, 2012. Under the heading "Petition for assistance for the heirs of Captain Hall," sponsored by one George William Allen of Hall's home state of Ohio. The debate on this bill does not seem to have survived, although it appears it was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and there's a small item in the Boston Evening Transcript. Glenn M. Stein. March 13, 2012 at 10:18 AM. March 13, 2012 at 10:38 AM. The Informa...
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VISIONS OF THE NORTH: May 2015
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VISIONS OF THE NORTH. The Terrors of the Frozen Zone, Past and Present. Saturday, May 30, 2015. The Faces of Franklin's Men? Image courtesy The Polar Record. Their study has just appeared in the latest issue of The Polar Record. Under the prosaic title of "Craniofacial Reconstructions of Two Members of Franklin's 1845 Expedition.". While acknowledging that since Gore died prior to the 1848 abandonment, the skull can't be his. The next step, as the authors acknowledge, is to try DNA testing; since there a...
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VISIONS OF THE NORTH: Unfriendly Millionaires
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VISIONS OF THE NORTH. The Terrors of the Frozen Zone, Past and Present. Tuesday, July 14, 2015. For a time, it seemed, Jim Balsillie was the answer to a Franklin searcher's prayer - a man with deep pockets, broad enthusiasm, and the patience to find out just what was needed for each year's search, and provide it. The research vessel he donated, the Martin Bergmann. Have lionized him as the prime mover behind the successful 2014 search for Franklin's ships. There is, however, one group of people I do.
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VISIONS OF THE NORTH: March 2015
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VISIONS OF THE NORTH. The Terrors of the Frozen Zone, Past and Present. Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Ice Diving on HMS "Erebus". Ice-diving HMS "Breadalbane" © 2014 DND-MDN Canada. So what can we expect? I'll be particularly interested in the anchors - were they deliberately deployed? If they were, that would be a key confirmation of Inuit testimony that they saw fresh tracks and deck sweepings near the vessel, and that it was manned when it arrived. And, if it was - as Ryan Harris recently observed. Where...
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VISIONS OF THE NORTH: A Fateful Clipping
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VISIONS OF THE NORTH. The Terrors of the Frozen Zone, Past and Present. Friday, June 12, 2015. Over the years, numerous Franklin experts, from R.J. Cyriax to A.G.E. Jones to William Battersby, Glenn M. Stein, and myself, have pondered the faded, backwards-lettered and enigmatic leaves known as the " Peglar Papers. Which have been dubbed "the dead sea scrolls of the North." What to make of songs about turtles, references to grog shops, and the infamous "Party Wot Happened in Trinidad"? Are merchant vessel...
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VISIONS OF THE NORTH: Franklin Fiction List
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VISIONS OF THE NORTH. The Terrors of the Frozen Zone, Past and Present. A Bibliography of major literary treatments. Of the Franklin expedition. Compiled by Russell A. Potter. Detroit, Mich.: E.E. Barclay, 1851). 2 Verne, Jules, The English at the Pole. By Jules Verne. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1875. 3 Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. 4 Oxley, James Macdonald. North overland with Franklin. London: Musson, N.D.). 5 Cato, Nancy. North-West by south. New York: Atheneum,1974). New Yor...
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