HMS Erebus
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Coffee beans, pencils: Sailors’ lives revealed via Franklin expedition artifacts"You're down there and you remove things, uncover the sediments, and they slowly appear. To see this unfold before your eyes, it is quite the charge."CanadaFeb 20, 2020
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Dark Poutine Podcast Recap – Icebound: Franklin’s lost expeditionThe fate of the Franklin expedition was finally revealed, thanks to the help of the Inuit people and their oral traditions.Dec 10, 2018
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Lead poisoning eliminated as pivotal role in Franklin Expedition deathsUniversity of Saskatchewan researchers helped provide new insights in the deaths of crew members from the ill-fated Franklin Expedition.ScienceAug 24, 2018
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Franklin expedition ships officially gifted to Canada and the Inuit peopleCanada and the Inuit are now officially co-owners of the two long-lost ships from the Franklin expedition.CanadaApr 26, 2018
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Canadian dive team prepares to search Franklin shipwrecksA team of underwater researchers is beginning its work on the two Sir John Franklin expedition shipwrecks.EnvironmentNov 7, 2016
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HMS Terror wreckage discovered 168 years after Northwest Passage attempt: reportEight years into the quest to solve a 168-year-old mystery, an Arctic research mission may have found the second of two shipwrecks from the ill-fated Franklin Expedition.CanadaSep 12, 2016
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WATCH: Video, interactive exhibit takes you inside doomed Franklin Expedition shipVideo taken inside one of two ships lost during the ill-fated Franklin expedition gives a close-up look at one of maritime history's great mysteries.CanadaMar 23, 2016
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Franklin Expedition commemorative coin and stamps unveiled in HalifaxThere was a major unveiling at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Wednesday morning, as Canada Post revealed two new commemorative stamps and the Royal Canadian Mint unveiled a new coin - all paying tribute to the historic and ill-fated Franklin Expedition that searched for the Northwest Passage.Jul 22, 2015
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Shearwater divers describe visit to Franklin wreckage as “electric”The ship was discovered last year, and a team consisting of Parks Canada divers and divers from the Fleet Diving Unit (Atlantic) made a special trek to survey the wreckage in April.Jul 9, 2015
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Iconic bell from Franklin ship recovered from vesselA brass bell from HMS Erebus, one of the two doomed ships from the Franklin expedition, is now in the hands of scientists in Ottawa.CanadaNov 6, 2014
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