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Arctic searchers have found the well-preserved hull of HMS Terror, the second ship of Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated expedition to find the Northwest Passage in the 1840s.
Terror is in relatively shallow water off King William Island.
The announcement came from the Arctic Research Foundation, a charity funded by BlackBerry executive Jim Balsillie that went to the Arctic last month to continue the search for the missing ship. The sister ship Erebus was found in September, 2014.
Adrian Schimnowski, the spokesman for the Arctic Research Foundation, is on board one of the vessels in the search and relayed the news to his wife, Oksana, a former staffer with the foundation who now works with Polar Knowledge Canada.
The submerged wreck was found on Sept. 3, she said, but the group had to make sure it had the right wreck.
“They had to steam back to Cambridge Bay, a full day away,” to get more equipment, Oksana Schimnowski said. Then they had to return with remote-controlled video equipment to examine the ship. The need for safety in the Arctic also made the searchers work slowly.
“Erebus and Terror were what they called bomb vessels,” she said. These were ships carrying heavy mortars, and they had reinforced hulls that were judged useful for work in Arctic ice.
“They were the only two bomb vessels known to have sailed in the Arctic, and that made identification easier,” she said.
Franklin’s two ships left England in 1845 but eventually became stuck in the ice of Victoria Strait. With the ships still icebound in 1848, the survivors tried to go south over land to safety, but in the end all 129 men, including Franklin, died.
Parks Canada, the main government partner in the search, has said nothing about the find and hasn’t answered calls or emails asking for information. Its website and Twitter account have been silent.
More to come.
tspears@postmedia.com
twitter.com/TomSpears1
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Terror is in relatively shallow water off King William Island.
The announcement came from the Arctic Research Foundation, a charity funded by BlackBerry executive Jim Balsillie that went to the Arctic last month to continue the search for the missing ship. The sister ship Erebus was found in September, 2014.
Adrian Schimnowski, the spokesman for the Arctic Research Foundation, is on board one of the vessels in the search and relayed the news to his wife, Oksana, a former staffer with the foundation who now works with Polar Knowledge Canada.
The submerged wreck was found on Sept. 3, she said, but the group had to make sure it had the right wreck.
“They had to steam back to Cambridge Bay, a full day away,” to get more equipment, Oksana Schimnowski said. Then they had to return with remote-controlled video equipment to examine the ship. The need for safety in the Arctic also made the searchers work slowly.
“Erebus and Terror were what they called bomb vessels,” she said. These were ships carrying heavy mortars, and they had reinforced hulls that were judged useful for work in Arctic ice.
“They were the only two bomb vessels known to have sailed in the Arctic, and that made identification easier,” she said.
Franklin’s two ships left England in 1845 but eventually became stuck in the ice of Victoria Strait. With the ships still icebound in 1848, the survivors tried to go south over land to safety, but in the end all 129 men, including Franklin, died.
Parks Canada, the main government partner in the search, has said nothing about the find and hasn’t answered calls or emails asking for information. Its website and Twitter account have been silent.
More to come.
tspears@postmedia.com
twitter.com/TomSpears1
查看原文...
