Harris on Hong Kong’s Iconic Jumbo Floating Restaurant Sinks Under Tow in South China Sea Peter Wright on Hong Kong’s Iconic Jumbo Floating Restaurant Sinks Under Tow in South China Sea.Rick Spilman on Hong Kong’s Iconic Jumbo Floating Restaurant Sinks Under Tow in South China Sea.Jean-Pierre on Hong Kong’s Iconic Jumbo Floating Restaurant Sinks Under Tow in South China Sea.Thanks to Roberta Weisbrod for contributing to this post. Parks Canada explores the wreck of HMS Erebus and collects new artifacts The wreck of HMS Erebus was discovered in 2014. The expedition is considered one of the worst disasters in the history of polar exploration. The entire expedition of 129 men, including Franklin, was lost. The two ships became icebound in Victoria Strait near King William Island in the Canadian Arctic, in what is today the territory of Nunavut. “The preservation of the objects is quite phenomenal.”įranklin’s lost expedition was a British voyage in search of the Northwest passage led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed from England in 1845 aboard two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. “We have had the most successful season since the discovery of the wreck,” Marc-André Bernier, manager of Parks Canada’s underwater archeology team, told reporters in a press conference. Sealing wax with the imprint of a fingerprint believed to belong to Edmund Hoar, the captain’s steward was also found. More than 350 artifacts have been recovered, including epaulets from a lieutenant’s uniform, ceramic dishes, wine bottles, a hairbrush with strands of human hair, and a pencil case.
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Artifacts recovered during 93 dives by Parks Canada on the wreck of HMS Erebus over three weeks this fall provide a fascinating glimpse into the lives of the officers and sailors on the doomed Franklin Expedition of 1845.