Hms terror

One of the world's most valuable shipwrecks has been discovered, solving a mystery that many have pondered for hundreds of years!

Treasure hunters have recovered gold from a Victorian shipwreck which sunk off Anglesey while returning laden with riches from the Australian gold rush.

Photos of HMS Terror, and Erebus class monitor of the Royal Navy. Launched in 1916, she served during WW1 and WW2 before being sunk in 1941

Scale cross section of Crozier's personal quarters (at Station 12). Note that the double planking and ice channels on the hull aren't shown here. As part of my research on the Terror’s lower deck, I created a series of elevations of the fittings and accommodations. In my previous post, I provided a cross section of the captain’s great cabin, which was the most spacious and lavishly appointed room on the ship. This stood in contrast to Crozier’s bed cabin which appears to have been as small…

The Final Days of the Franklin Expedition: New Skeletal Evidence(Franklin Expedition)

Erebus drifts south in the ice, a still from Franklin's Lost Ships. © Lion Television and 90th Parallel Productions. Image provided by Andrew Gregg, used with permission. Last week, Lion Television, in collaboration with 90th Parallel Productions, aired a wonderful new documentary, Franklin’s Lost Ships, on CBC’s The Nature of Things. The show was directed by Ben Finney and produced by Andrew Gregg for CBC, PBS, and Channel 4. The documentary chronicles the 2014 Victoria Strait Expedition…

The exhumation of a man who died on an Arctic expedition allowed scientists to re-examine the body using modern forensics, revealing a surprise.

America tries to freeze Canada out of the route through the Arctic