DNA identification of a sailor from the 1845 Franklin northwest passage expedition. Terror, disappeared with all their crew while searching for the Northwest Passage. Stenton, D., Fratpietro, S., Keenleyside, A., & Park, R. In 1848, the Franklin expedition’s two ships, H.M.S.In 2021, DNA analysis on Cranium #80 from King William Island and a descendant from South Africa led to the bones being identified as Engineer Gregory. Two years later, the skulls (Called Cranium #35, and Cranium #80) were given facial reconstructions to establish what the men may have looked like when they were alive. For the next 16 years, no one disturbed them until 2013, when Douglas Stenton and his team brought them and some other bones back for analysis. Four years later, the skulls as well as a femur were placed in a metal box to protect them from the elements and they were placed under a cairn. In 1993, three skeletons were found in Erebus bay in a location close to McClintock's Boat Place. Prior to this, Gregory had not been employed with the Royal Navy, but rather had been an engineer at the firm that manufactured the steam engines employed by the Expedition. In the spring of 1845, Gregory joined the Franklin expedition as HMS Erebus's engineer. The couple would go on to have seven surviving children, most referred to by name in Gregory's final letter to his wife.
The wedding was held at Saint Michael's Parish Church in Ashton-Under-Lyne, Lancashire. In 1822, Gregory was married to Hannah Wilson. He was the son of William and Frances Gregory. Hopefully, by piecing all of this together, we can actually start pushing the narrative of the story in some interesting direction.John Gregory was born on Septemin Salford. How did that happen? Was Hornby transferred to Erebus did they abandon one ship and put everybody on the other one? Was it something somebody recovered after he died? Was it given to somebody? With one object, we can start to see questions. “So this object jumped ship at one point. “Originally, when the ships set sail, he was not on Erebus, he was on Terror,” Bernier says. Travelling to the Erebus The Erebus Wiki Fandom in: Tutorials, Good Travelling to the Erebus View source Contents 1 Preface 2 Travelling to the Erebus 2.1 Step 1: Prep Work 2.2 Step 2: The Offering Altar and Gaean Gems 2.3 Step 3: Staffs of Gaea and the Gaean Keystone 2.4 Step 4: The Erebus Portal 2. Near Edmund Hoar’s items, divers found another artifact that also bore the name of a crew member-mate Frederick Hornby. How and when did the HMS Erebus sink after both ships were abandoned in spring 1848, having been trapped in ice since September 1846? Which officers and crew were among the 24 men who had died by that time, and why so many?īernier tells Mental Floss there’s even a new mystery to solve. Parks Canada's Underwater Archaeology TeamĪs with the findings from previous research seasons, many questions about the shocking demise of the Franklin expedition remain unanswered. Parks Canada and Inuit archaeologists set up instruments near the HMS Erebus shipwreck. They may have belonged to James Walter Fairholme, one of the three lieutenants on the Erebus. In drawers underneath the third lieutenant’s bed, they discovered a tin box with a pair of the officer’s epaulets in “pristine condition,” Bernier said. Over a total of 93 dives this year, archaeologists concentrated on three crew members’ cabins on the port side amidships: one belonging to the third lieutenant, one for the steward, and one likely for the ice master. That’s where we think we have a better chance of finding more clues to what happened to the expedition, which is one of the major objectives.” “Right now, our focus is the cabins of the officers, and we’re working our way toward the higher officers.
“We focused on areas that had not been disturbed since the ship had sunk,” Bernier said. Parks Canada's Underwater Archaeology Teamįrom mid-August to mid-September, 2019, the Parks Canada and Inuit research team began systematically excavating the large and complex shipwreck. A Parks Canada diver retrieves a glass decanter at the HMS Erebus shipwreck.
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