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HMS Terror Found - 9/12/2016 9:26:41 PM

Zorch

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/12/hms-terror-wreck-found-arctic-nearly-170-years-northwest-passage-attempt

"Ship found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Passage attempt
Exclusive: Perfectly preserved HMS Terror vessel sank during disastrous expedition led by British explorer Sir John Franklin"

The long-lost ship of British polar explorer Sir John Franklin, HMS Terror, has been found in pristine condition at the bottom of an Arctic bay, researchers have said, in a discovery that challenges the accepted history behind one of polar exploration�s deepest mysteries.

HMS Terror and Franklin�s flagship, HMS Erebus, were abandoned in heavy sea ice far to the north of the eventual wreck site in 1848, during the Royal Navy explorer�s doomed attempt to complete the Northwest Passage.

All 129 men on the Franklin expedition died, in the worst disaster to hit Britain�s Royal Navy in its long history of polar exploration. Search parties continued to look for the ships for 11 years after they disappeared, but found no trace, and the fate of the missing men remained an enigma that tantalised generations of historians, archaeologists and adventurers.

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RE: HMS Terror Found - 9/12/2016 9:42:56 PM

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if it was possible, that ship would be worth bringing up.

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RE: HMS Terror Found - 9/12/2016 10:21:14 PM

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Wow, what a tremendous find!

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RE: HMS Terror Found - 9/12/2016 11:24:38 PM

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I wonder if any written traces could survive in those frigid Arctic waters? Such as the ship's log.

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RE: HMS Terror Found - 9/13/2016 3:01:06 AM

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Great story. Thanks for posting this.