HMS Erebus Laid down in 1826 in Wales, where it was designed as a bomb ship (and named after an aspect of the Greek underworld).Later converted to a scientific ship, launching a legendary exploration career which took it to the literal ends of the Earth.Refitted with a steam engine from a locomotive, among other cutting-edge technological advancements. It was the scientific pride of the Royal Navy.It disappeared in 1845, but was finally rediscovered in 2014 after centuries of searches. The voyagers: John Franklin, captain of Erebus’s Arctic voyage Franklin was a questionable choice of captain for Erebus’s 1845 journey to the Arctic. One of Britain’s most-experienced explorers, his career had been marked by controversy and near catastrophe (an earlier expedition had gone so badly wrong that he had been forced to boil and eat his boots to avoid starvation). Nobody will ever know whether it was the style of Franklin’s leadership that ultimately doomed his Arctic voyage. By 1847, with no signal from the crew of Erebus, his wife Jane was leading the call for rescue parties to be sent to the Arctic to save him, sparking one of most dramatic searches in history. The voyagers: Joseph Dalton, second surgeon on Erebus's Antarctic voyage When was appointed to the crew of Erebus, he was a 22-year-old botanist fresh out of the University of Glasgow. But his discoveries during the Antarctic voyage marked the beginning of one of the most illustrious careers in scientific history. obsessively recorded the plants and animals that he saw on the voyage, offering Britons their first glimpse of the diverse wildlife of the southern hemisphere. Years later, would become a towering figure in the scientific community, being appointed director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew and building a close friendship with Charles Darwin. The voyagers: Francis Crozier, second-in-command of Antarctic and Arctic voyages Crozier was great friends with James Clark Ross during Erebus’s Antarctic voyages (he was one of the few people allowed to call Crozier ‘Frank’). But his relationship with Sir John Franklin was less happy: indeed Crozier sometimes feigned illness to avoid having to dine with him. An anxious, pessimistic man by nature, he had dark forebodings about Erebus’s final, disastrous journey. The voyagers: James Clark Ross, captain of Erebus's Antarctic voyage Ross was born into one of Britain’s great naval families, embarking on his first Arctic voyage at the age of just eighteen. In 1831, he became a national hero when he reached the North Magnetic Pole by sled – and nearly died in the process. Once described as the ‘handsomest man in the navy’, Ross was well-built and calmly authoritative: the obvious choice when the Admiralty decided to commission a voyage to the Antarctic. The journey he led would brave fierce storms and unimaginable cold to chart vast swathes of the most untamed continent in the world. John Franklin Joseph Dalton Francis Crozier James Clark Ross
✔ Author(s): Palin Michael
✔ Title: Erebus: The Story of A Ship
✔ Rating : 4.6 out of 5 base on (5115 reviews)
✔ ISBN-10: 1784758574
✔ ISBN-13: 9781784758578
✔ Language: English
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