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Canada confirms ship as HMS Erebus

A shipwreck uncovered beneath the icy wastes of northern Canada has been identified as the long-lost HMS Erebus.
The Victorian-era vessel became part of nautical folklore after it vanished in the mid-19th Century.
Its captain, Sir John Franklin, had been searching for the fabled Northwest Passage.
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How searchers found the lost Franklin expedition ship

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Franklin expedition ship pieces believed discovered in Arctic

An archeology team has discovered pieces from the long-lost 19th-century Franklin expedition ships - "the first discovery" of its kind in modern times, the government of Nunavut announced on Monday.
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One of two British explorer ships that disappeared in the Arctic more than 160 years ago is found
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The Franklin expedition set sail from Greenhithe, England, on the morning of 19 May 1845, with a crew of 24 officers and 110 men. The ships stopped briefly in Stromness Harbour in the Orkney Islands in northern Scotland, and from there they sailed to Greenland with HMS Rattler and a transport ship, Barretto Junior.
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Old bones yield cold facts about the mysterious end of the Franklin expedition

For more than 140 years, the remains found on Nunavut's King William Island by an American adventurer have been identified as those of Lt. Henry Le Vesconte, one of the officers who died with Sir John Franklin and all 127 other crewmen aboard the exploration ships Terror and Erebus during their famously ill-fated voyage to Northern Canada in the 1840s.
Now, the first modern scientific study of the bones and teeth of the sailor who perished while helping Britain - and, in turn, Canada - establish its Arctic sovereignty has shown that the remains probably belong to another of Franklin's officers: expedition naturalist and assistant surgeon Harry Goodsir.
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Canadian team finds 19th Century HMS Investigator wreck

Canadian archaeologists have located a British ship abandoned in the Arctic while on a 19th Century rescue mission.
Parks Canada researchers found the HMS Investigator in Mercy Bay this week.
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A Canadian team is to search for two ships lost in an 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage.
The British ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were trapped in the Arctic ice as Sir John Franklin sought a northern route from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
He and his 128 crew died - although their exact fate remains a mystery - and the ships were never found.

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