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 ...

The Shipwrecks From John Franklin’s Doomed Arctic Expedition Were Exactly Where the Inuit Said They Would Be In May 1845, 129 British officers and crew members set out in search of the Northwest ...

Bright Side. What Really Happened to the Franklin's Lost Expedition. Posted: April 29, 2025 | Last updated: April 29, 2025. Back in 1845, Sir John Franklin set out with two ships, the HMS Erebus ...

The lost expedition of John Franklin is a classic tale of traveling gone wrong. ... Franklin’s expedition was supposed to change that. They were well equipped with two reinforced boats and supposedly ...

An engraving shows the end of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated Arctic expedition based on a painting by British artist W. Thomas Smith exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1896.

Archaeologists have identified the cannibalized remains of a senior officer who perished during an ill-fated 19th century Arctic expedition, offering insight into its lost crew’s tragic and ...