These buttons from the 1850s were left during the search for the lost Franklin expedition. The buttons would guide survivors ...

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 ...

A new book argues that a deadly decision made decades before the doomed Franklin Expedition may finally explain why so many ...

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 ...

During the grueling journey, 11 of Franklin’s 20 men perished. Agony, murder, starvation and, it’s quite apparent, cannibalism occurred. It was hardly a valiant effort.

In Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time, a young woman must help a naval commander snatched from death in 1847 adapt to the ...