Sir John Franklin

• Delivery schedule for new coast guard ships threatened after vessel damaged in Victoria crash

  The CCGS Sir John Franklin was damaged Sunday when it collided with a breakwater during sea trials in Victoria.

  Canada

  Mar 25, 2019
  
• Canadian Coast Guard’s newest vessel damaged after running into Victoria port

  A statement from Seaspan says the crash damaged the vessel's rudder, propeller, and port side.

  Mar 24, 2019
  
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• Canadian dive team prepares to search Franklin shipwrecks

  A team of underwater researchers is beginning its work on the two Sir John Franklin expedition shipwrecks.

  Environment

  Nov 7, 2016
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• ‘Expedition of a lifetime’: Shearwater divers to get close-up look at Franklin wreckage

  Members of an elite diving unit based in Halifax are heading to the Arctic next month to be a part of history.

  Canada

  Mar 10, 2015
• Iconic bell from Franklin ship recovered from vessel

  A brass bell from HMS Erebus, one of the two doomed ships from the Franklin expedition, is now in the hands of scientists in Ottawa.

  Canada

  Nov 6, 2014
• Franklin ship Canada found is HMS Erebus: Harper

  Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the shipwreck found in the Arctic last month is HMS Erebus, the vessel on which Sir John Franklin himself sailed in search of the Northwest Passage in 1845.

  Canada

  Oct 1, 2014
• Long-lost ship from Franklin expedition found

  A Canadian search team has unlocked one of the world's great exploration mysteries with the discovery of one of two lost ships from Sir John Franklin's doomed Arctic expedition.

  Canada

  Sep 9, 2014
• Harper joins hunt for lost Franklin ships

  The final resting place of the lost ships of the Franklin expedition may remain a mystery for at least another summer.

  Canada

  Aug 25, 2014