The doomed Franklin Expedition
This blog is about one of the many events and disasters in history that I have found interesting. I think I will start blogging as it seems I haven't used this in years. Oh well life happens. This is about the ill fated Franklin expedition to discover the Northwest Passage. Why anyone would want to go to a cold dreary place is beyond me yet here we are.....(don't mind me i hate the cold and dread our winters let alone go way up there. They did it to discover and Science .I can respect that. The British Royal Navy put together an expedition for 1845 to sail two ships HMS Erebus & HMS Terror to try to discover the Northwest Passage way up in no where's land in northern Canada. To lead the expedition they recruited John Franklin & James Fitjames to command the Erebus & Franc...