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The archeologists found it on the very first dive in September: A bronze bell lying on the shallow sea bottom in the high Arctic, beside Sir John Franklin’s sunken flagship.
On Thursday, the bell from HMS Erebus made its first public appearance.
Marked with the distinctive arrow stamped on Royal Navy property, and also engraved with the date 1845, the bell was revealed Thursday by Leona Aglukkaq, minister for Parks Canada, at the department’s lab on Walkley Road.
While Parks Canada didn’t publicly discuss the bell’s discovery when divers recovered it in September, they now say it was found on the first of seven dives to the wreck and brought to the surface on the final dive the following day.
Franklin and 128 men sailed from England in 1845 to explore the Northwest Passage. All died over the next few years. Their ships, Erebus and Terror, became stuck in the ice of Victoria Strait and eventually sank. Terror has not been found.
Parks Canada said in its announcement: “The HMS Erebus bell is being stored in an environmentally controlled and physically secure location at the Parks Canada archaeological conservation laboratory in Ottawa.
“The bell is currently immersed in a bath of distilled water, the chemistry of which is monitored daily to detect any changes in the condition of the artifact. It will undergo a lengthy conservation treatment perhaps taking 18 months or longer.”
It adds: “The bell is intact and generally in very good condition.”
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On Thursday, the bell from HMS Erebus made its first public appearance.
Marked with the distinctive arrow stamped on Royal Navy property, and also engraved with the date 1845, the bell was revealed Thursday by Leona Aglukkaq, minister for Parks Canada, at the department’s lab on Walkley Road.
While Parks Canada didn’t publicly discuss the bell’s discovery when divers recovered it in September, they now say it was found on the first of seven dives to the wreck and brought to the surface on the final dive the following day.
Franklin and 128 men sailed from England in 1845 to explore the Northwest Passage. All died over the next few years. Their ships, Erebus and Terror, became stuck in the ice of Victoria Strait and eventually sank. Terror has not been found.
Parks Canada said in its announcement: “The HMS Erebus bell is being stored in an environmentally controlled and physically secure location at the Parks Canada archaeological conservation laboratory in Ottawa.
“The bell is currently immersed in a bath of distilled water, the chemistry of which is monitored daily to detect any changes in the condition of the artifact. It will undergo a lengthy conservation treatment perhaps taking 18 months or longer.”
It adds: “The bell is intact and generally in very good condition.”
tspears@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/TomSpears1
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