A rare Arctic rescue button was sold at auction on Tuesday for £6,000, which was 10 times its pre sale estimate. Auctioneer Brian Goodison-Blanks, of Bearnes, Hampton and Littlewood in Exeter, said ...

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SUPPLEMENT: In 1849, the Admiralty sent out two ships, the Erebus and Terror, on a mission to find the North West Passage. The mystery of what happened to the ships of the Franklin ...

"Lost in the Arctic" is a Documentary in which we follow the mystery behind Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition of 1845. Franklin and his crew of 129 men vanished without a trace while attempting ...

A commentary on hubris and futility, the painting was not a direct reference to the catastrophic loss of the Franklin Expedition, dispatched two decades earlier, but was certainly inspired by it.

Object Details Author Collinson, Richard Sir 1811-1883 Subject Franklin, John 1786-1847 Enterprise (British ship) Notes Reprint of the 1889 ed. published by S. Low, Marston, Searle & Riverton, London.