Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition is a moment of history that piques a great deal of interest and imagination today. The sailors who died trying to ...

Another piece of the Franklin Expedition puzzle has dropped into place. However, like most new bits of information concerning this enduring exploration mystery, it raises more questions than it ...

The mysterious fate of Captain John Franklin’s doomed 1845 voyage into the Arctic to find a way through the Northwest Passage has captured imaginations for over a century and a half. A recent ...

Explorers have found the wreck of HMS Terror, the second of two British ships lost in the disastrous 1845 Franklin expedition to Canada's Arctic Northwest Passage, Britain's Guardian newspaper said on ...

This month, the infamously ill-fated Franklin Expedition returned to the headlines with the discovery of the missing HMS Terror. The find follows the 2014 ...

Scientists at the University of Waterloo have identified one of the doomed crew members of Captain Sir John S. Franklin‘s 1846 Arctic expedition to cross the Northwest Passage. According to a recent ...

In 1846, the Franklin Expedition was trapped in the ice of the Victoria Strait, but Franklin died on June 11, 1847. After Franklin's death, James FitzJames, commander of the Royal Navy's expedition ...

Captain James Fitzjames served as captain of the HMS Erebus, but his rank didn't prevent his men from eating his remains in a desperate bid to survive. Reading time 2 minutes On May 19, 1845, two ...

In the 19th century, the British Navy determined to solve the puzzle of the Northwest Passage. The promise of a shorter route between Europe and the beckoning markets of the East proved irresistible, ...

One of the ships from a failed expedition to the Arctic in the 1800s was recently discovered. NPR's Wade Goodwyn talks to Dan Simmons, who wrote a best-selling fictionalized account of the disaster.

It’s not easy playing second banana. One can be remarkably skilled, dependable in a crisis, and play an instrumental role in the success (or failure) of an endeavor, yet be largely forgotten as the ...