The Lost Franklin Expedition

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  • In May of 1845, two vessels of the Royal Navy, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, set out from England. En route to the Canadian Arctic, their mission was to find the Northwest Passage, a trade route from the Atlantic to the Pacific over Canada. But the men were never seen again. This mystery last almost 170 years before the ships were once again found. But these ships were some of the most technologically advanced and well prepared ships for the job. So just what happened? Check it out and find out just what might have happened to the Doomed Franklin Expedition.
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  • @tacitus6384
    @tacitus6384 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2610

    "They offloaded 5 men who were too ill to continue the journey."
    They were the lucky ones.

    • @fluffywolfo3663
      @fluffywolfo3663 2 ปีที่แล้ว +385

      Some Englishman after being too sick to go on the expedition: "I may never live with this shame. I was _the man too sick to explore the unknown-_
      Years later: "Shit, at least I'm alive."

    • @martywood8543
      @martywood8543 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@fluffywolfo3663 Yep.

    • @kaengurus.sind.genossen
      @kaengurus.sind.genossen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      The only survivors

    • @snakeguy8646
      @snakeguy8646 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      I don’t think it’s a guarantee they lived tbh, if I remember they may have had Tuberculosis, which also is theorized to have been spreading among the crews of the ships

    • @SkyPilot-qx2sb
      @SkyPilot-qx2sb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      This sounds like a horror
      Documentary line to be honest. What makes it more frightening… it’s true.

  • @RuhrRedArmy
    @RuhrRedArmy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3920

    The thought of Crozier potentially surviving years afterwards in the frozen wilderness is truly haunting and sad

    • @alexanderbrambila8274
      @alexanderbrambila8274 2 ปีที่แล้ว +340

      Haunting yes, sad no. I like to think their love of home and the small chance of seeing loved ones again, kept them going long after all hope was lost. Hope preserves us in our time of need. And maybe, just maybe they did make it, made a new life with the inuit people.

    • @letsgobrandon416
      @letsgobrandon416 2 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      Does sound quite strange, as wouldn't continuing south be a better chance than surviving in the arctic?

    • @alexanderbrambila8274
      @alexanderbrambila8274 2 ปีที่แล้ว +309

      @@letsgobrandon416 without supplies and man power going south would be harder than staying with a tribe and surviving.

    • @Saralee-fp2rr
      @Saralee-fp2rr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      I needed to rewind to make sure I heard that correctly

    • @richardmalcolm1457
      @richardmalcolm1457 2 ปีที่แล้ว +169

      @@letsgobrandon416 "Does sound quite strange, as wouldn't continuing south be a better chance than surviving in the arctic?" In theory, sure. In reality...Crozier and his men were surely suffering from malnutrition, and without skill or experience in Arctic overland travel. It was over 1200 miles to the seasonal Hudson Bay Company outpost at Fort Resolution, and even farther to the nearest year round one at Fort Churchill - over brutal terrain, much of it uncharted. It was feat well beyond their strength.

  • @oban6051
    @oban6051 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3427

    “He was simply tired of the arctic” as a soldier stationed in Alaska I feel this on a spiritual level.

    • @thepodcastcrew1113
      @thepodcastcrew1113 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Thanks that gave me a good chuckle!

    • @crabbyj
      @crabbyj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      😆😆😆

    • @spookieboogi6161
      @spookieboogi6161 2 ปีที่แล้ว +149

      *looks left looks right* yes sir it’s… the same as it was 8 hours ago just lots of snow and *squints* oh and I just watched my sanity jump off a cliff

    • @biggsweaty
      @biggsweaty 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      I wish you well out there

    • @philliphampton5183
      @philliphampton5183 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Wainwright?

  • @thundercactus
    @thundercactus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2258

    I read a very interesting paper on the Franklin's lead toxicity. And it posited that the source was primarily, and overwhelmingly, the water purification system.
    It's been assumed the cans were the primary source, BUT, despite being the first "batch" from that company, those cans were used many more times on many other ships without incident. And the amount of lead poisoning that could have been absorbed from the food just didn't seem to add up to what they were finding in the bodies.
    What makes way more sense is the specialized water system on the Terror and Erebus.
    Because they had steam locomotive engines fitted, which had massive 2000lb/hr water requirements, and seawater would have fouled them quickly, the ships needed a lot of fresh water in reserve to fill the need. Now, the primary source of distilled water on the ships was the Fraser patent stove, which was heated by steam, thus producing potable water for the crew (but only enough for the crew). There was a lead lined water tank as reserve, but if they were to use the engines they'd need a way to produce a lot of distilled water very quickly.
    Enter the Fraser patent steam heating furnace. A furnace that heats the ship by steam, thus in addition to heating, also produces a lot of distilled water, has the heat to melt ice and snow gathered in a deck tank into fresh water, AND can also supply steam for the Fraser stove.
    Now in most lead water systems on land, you get a nice calcification build up in the pipes which will naturally protect the lead from the water and vice versa.But on a freshly build heating system of lead pipes, with brand new lead water tanks, there's no calcification buildup. And distilled water does NOT like being pure water, so it desperately tries to absorb anything into it, like lead. And you know what makes that process MUCH faster? Heat.
    So running hot steam through lead pipes, then gathering the condensate basically guarantees a large amount of lead contamination.
    Not only were they drinking this water, but also using it to bake biscuits with all the flour they had brought.
    This would explain the levels of lead toxicity, as well as providing a plausible reason they may have abandoned ship; had a furnace broken from corroding its own steam pipes, it could have been cause to abandon ship. Not just due to the change of environment, but the fact that damp clothing is very deadly for anyone wanting to go outside in the arctic.

    • @MaritimeHorrors
      @MaritimeHorrors  3 ปีที่แล้ว +380

      Huh, very interesting. I had read that they had potable water distiller, but didn't know the exact details on it. Very cool. Got any sources in case others want to read up on it as well?

    • @thundercactus
      @thundercactus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +339

      @@MaritimeHorrors Yes! TH-cam is hating the link, it's a journal of the Hakluyt Society; "Identification of the Probable Source of the Lead Poisoning Observed in Members of the Franklin Expedition" by William Battersby
      It's remarkably difficult to find on its own, I had trouble finding it again myself, but it's well worth the read!

    • @victoriadiesattheend.8478
      @victoriadiesattheend.8478 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@thundercactus thank you.

    • @richardmalcolm1457
      @richardmalcolm1457 2 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      "This would explain the levels of lead toxicity, as well as providing a plausible reason they may have abandoned ship." It's an interesting thought, and a close analysis of the surviving pipes and furnace components on the wrecks might tell us a lot. But I also think we hardly need to look at the furnace and pipes for a reason why Crozier abandoned the ships in April 1848. Nutrition *had* to have been a pressing concern; they had three years of food stores, which on normal rations would last until July 1848; even had they spent the previous 9-12 months on reduced rations (and they probably did), it's doubtful the stretching of the food stores would get them through to the summer of 1849. And that does not even get into the issue of scurvy, which almost certainly had to be a live concern at that point. They would have needed fresh game, and they would have needed it urgently.

    • @abrahamdozer6273
      @abrahamdozer6273 2 ปีที่แล้ว +168

      @@richardmalcolm1457 The Inuit escaped getting scurvy by eating their seal meat raw, the fat of which contains high levels of vitamin C. As soon as you cook it, though the Vitamin C is destroyed by the heat. There is no way that you would have convinced a Royal Navy crew to eat their meat raw even if they knew what vitamins were, anyway.

  • @lawsharland7278
    @lawsharland7278 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1965

    fucking crazy that Crozier was still trying to escape the arctic 12 yrs after the expedition first departed imagine being trapped in the great white nothing for 12 full years

    • @louise_rose
      @louise_rose 2 ปีที่แล้ว +113

      Is that more than just a legend? I figured he would have died in 1847/49 like the rest of them

    • @lawsharland7278
      @lawsharland7278 2 ปีที่แล้ว +306

      @@louise_rose their are reports from the Inuit of crozier still being alive with one other person and a cairn of European construction was found in the areas that the Inuit described

    • @richardmalcolm1457
      @richardmalcolm1457 2 ปีที่แล้ว +219

      We actually don't *know* it was Crozier. What we have is a second hand report relayed by Inuit to Charles Francis Hall in the 1860's, describing a party of four white men. Hall eagerly glossed the description of one of the men as surely being Crozier. But we really don't know. And there's other founded scholarly speculation (see Dave Woodman's book) based on other Inuit reports that Crozier died on King William Island in the summer of 1849.

    • @louise_rose
      @louise_rose 2 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      @@richardmalcolm1457 Exactly. It's basically hearsay and it seems extremely unlikely that Crozier and a few other men would have travelled on for years in the wilderness, covering many hundreds of kilometers all on their own, They knew nothing about how to hunt wood buffalo, Arctic birds or whatever, and they were ill adjusted to the climate.

    • @richardmalcolm1457
      @richardmalcolm1457 2 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      @@louise_rose Indeed! And consider also Crozier's age (49 at the outset of the expedition) and health, permanntly damaged from the Antarctic expedition with Ross. Given this, how likely is it that he was "the last man standing" (or one of the last men)? I mean, it's not *impossible* - we simply don't know! There's so little concrete information to go on. But the odds were definitely against it. If there was a senior officer left alive in those final summers, it's more likely to have been the much younger, more athletic James Fitzjames. But I hate to speculate on the basus of so little data.

  • @Henry-cd9pw
    @Henry-cd9pw 2 ปีที่แล้ว +997

    Fun fact about the 1819 franklin expedition where he ate his boots, there was also literal cannibalism. At one point they ran out of food, so some guys went off to hunt. Later only one returned and with lots of meat.
    Soon afterwards one of the guys at camp died while “cleaning his musket”. To save themselves the remaining crew killed the cannibal, Michel, when he returned from hunting.

    • @margotwenty6436
      @margotwenty6436 2 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      The Inuit often had to turn to cannibalism to survive if your land Visited by strange looking people would you not rather eat them then yourselves

    • @tylerbrown5478
      @tylerbrown5478 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@margotwenty6436 no I wouldn't

    • @loggue9193
      @loggue9193 2 ปีที่แล้ว +143

      @@tylerbrown5478 then you have never experienced true hunger

    • @hallamhal
      @hallamhal 2 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      I think there was someone in the Donner Party who died whilst 'cleaning their musket', seems to be a recurring theme

    • @mollybennett3291
      @mollybennett3291 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I feel like I read a book about this… it envovled someone carving whale bones I think?

  • @CoconutsGlow
    @CoconutsGlow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +227

    With names like Erebus (Darkness) and Terror... Hindsight is 20/20 but damn that's some heavy foreshadowing.

    • @MaritimeHorrors
      @MaritimeHorrors  2 ปีที่แล้ว +115

      I think the intentions were originally to be intimidating to the enemies of the Royal navy, but I agree. Probably why we name spaceships things like Discovery and Apollo instead of Doom and Destruction.

    • @blackhawk4ful
      @blackhawk4ful 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Five bucks they Would add a third ship: hms we are all going to die

  • @cdgconverselimbo6505
    @cdgconverselimbo6505 2 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    800 Miles… that’s roughly the distance between Denmark and Italy …through snow, low on food and suffering from lead poisoning and scurvy. Fucking insane.

  • @Huntress_Hannah
    @Huntress_Hannah 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2822

    The man who stayed home with his wife successfully dodged being eaten

    • @normanby100
      @normanby100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      His wife would eat part ofhim most nights.

    • @thatchannel195
      @thatchannel195 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Hello. What's the news from the other provinces?

    • @lonemaus562
      @lonemaus562 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@normanby100 lol nice one

    • @jaysonstinson9458
      @jaysonstinson9458 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      lo

    • @mattstorm360
      @mattstorm360 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@mervviscious He could have taken his wife with him on the expedition.

  • @indyj16
    @indyj16 2 ปีที่แล้ว +374

    1846/47 was also the same winter when the Donnor Party got trapped in the mountains, snowed in.

    • @Katpiratefan275
      @Katpiratefan275 2 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Holy crap! 1846/47 a winter of tragedy.

    • @Linnnaeus
      @Linnnaeus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Abraham Lincoln was supposed to go with them as he was friends with the Donner's, but his wife convinced him not to

    • @Katpiratefan275
      @Katpiratefan275 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@Linnnaeus smart lady. Can only imagine President Lincoln resorting to cannibalism, or emerging from the blizzard and everyone believing they are saved, but And still as screwed as the rest of them. Yeesh

    • @ZGryphon
      @ZGryphon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      I used to have a friend who would always tell the person in charge of seating at restaurants that his name was Donner, just to make them come out to the lobby when a table was ready and announce, "Donner, party of four..." (Or however many,.)

    • @ZGryphon
      @ZGryphon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@Katpiratefan275 By a strange coincidence, that winter was _also_ the height (if "height" is the appropriate word) of the Great Hunger in Ireland.

  • @armavirumquecano6190
    @armavirumquecano6190 2 ปีที่แล้ว +268

    "And when I say there is no cannibalism in the Royal Navy, I do mean that there is a certain amount."

    • @richardmalcolm1457
      @richardmalcolm1457 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Perfect!

    • @Phoebe5448
      @Phoebe5448 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Well, it was called the custom of the sea for a reason.

    • @Assassinus2
      @Assassinus2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      "And what do you think the Argylls ate in Aden? Arabs?
      Yours etc., Captain B.J. Smethwick in a white wine sauce with shallots, mushrooms, and garlic."

    • @lauragoodspeed7044
      @lauragoodspeed7044 ปีที่แล้ว

      👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @beanieweenietapioca
    @beanieweenietapioca 2 ปีที่แล้ว +282

    As a young child I remember watching the Nova special that featured the 1980s exhumation and autopsies of Beachy Island. My parents would never have let me watch, say, a zombie movie at that age; but a PBS documentary was just fine, right? The faces on those exhumed sailors horrified me for years afterwards.

    • @Conehead919
      @Conehead919 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Me too bro. I stoped eating chicken bc skin reminded me of the 3 bodies

    • @nono-fb8tr
      @nono-fb8tr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      I had the opposite reaction. I watched that same Nova special as a kid and it sparked a life long fascination with mummified remains and old human remains in general. To this day I daydream about being a forensic anthropologist and studying old bodies.

    • @allecto0940
      @allecto0940 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@nono-fb8tr me too.

    • @aratsincapacity
      @aratsincapacity 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I has to close the tab and listen to the rest of this video because that body frightened me so bad (╥﹏╥)

    • @freak49
      @freak49 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I saw that Nova episode and it was the first time I heard this story. Ever since then I've had this obsession with stories of extreme survival - the Donner Party, the Essex, etc

  • @leflayart
    @leflayart 2 ปีที่แล้ว +223

    I watched the show The Terror, and the accuracy of casting look-a-like actors to the real life people is absolutely astounding.

    • @mariakelly1059
      @mariakelly1059 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I didn't see the series, but I loved the novel the series was based on, by Dan Simmons.

    • @Zeruel3
      @Zeruel3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@mariakelly1059 Having read the novel and seen the series I really, really recommend the series, it's as good if not better in some bits and virtually everything is historically accurate

    • @pemo2676
      @pemo2676 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@mariakelly1059 i also recommend the series - really beautiful filmmaking and as accurate to the time period as you can get other then a few small exceptions. and tuunbaq

  • @karanhdream
    @karanhdream 2 ปีที่แล้ว +272

    We found the wrecks of those ships mainly thanks to the testimony of the inuit hunters and their oral history. Inuits have what could be the most accurate oral history on the planet. Since they have no written history, their lives depended on the accuracy of the information passed down.
    Sadly, their testimony was ridiculed and denied by England's victorian society. They were insulted and dragged through the mud, because they saw how the men resorted to cannibalism to stay alive. 170 years later, it is thanks to them that the Erebus and Terror were found.

    • @ComedyLoverGirl
      @ComedyLoverGirl ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I wonder if the Inuits had tried to help the stranded sailors. They clearly did interact with them, considering they knew the abysmal condition of their canned supplies, the cannibalism going on, and also could identify Crozier as one of the last people standing. Did they try to help, and did the sailors try to approach them for help, but couldn't make it work because of the language barrier or prejudice? Or were they wary of each other and kept their distance? Or perhaps they actually did help the sailors and that's why a few of them were able to stay alive on the ice for up to 12 years after the beginning of their ill-fated expedition.

    • @joshuahadams
      @joshuahadams ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@ComedyLoverGirl probably, but caring for that many half-starved and frozen people is hard for small nomadic families. Like sure you could give them some meat, fish, or wild vegetables - maybe teach them to hunt and fish - but it’d be hard nursing them back to anything resembling healthy.

    • @barbararice6650
      @barbararice6650 ปีที่แล้ว

      The cunts watched people starve, so fucking get out of here, oh but the bastards have mobile phones and modern technology these days, technology Franklin's men gave their lives to acquire 👈😑

    • @amandaduckett3093
      @amandaduckett3093 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ComedyLoverGirl I'm guessing they would have, but a similar situation ass the Donner party probably went down, where the whites refused help because of racism

    • @sethescope
      @sethescope ปีที่แล้ว +13

      ​@@joshuahadamsyou make a good point - and realistically speaking, how many supplies could they spare without putting themselves at risk? or greater risk, I suppose, considering the inherent risk of living in Arctic conditions and how I imagine food wouldn't typically be in huge supply. my super duper basic understanding is that the size of a community depends on access to resources. that's why - based on my understanding - communities tend to be larger in places with better conditions and vice versa.
      I imagine most inuit people at the time, being regular people, would have wanted to help and probably did help as much as they could. but like you point out, their ability to help was understandably limited

  • @clemdane
    @clemdane 2 ปีที่แล้ว +571

    The Terror tv series on AMC was absolutely brilliant. Yes, they added some supernatural elements, which I would normally loathe, but it didn't detract from the story. The performances were stellar across the entire cast and the writing as well. I normally hate when anyone takes liberties with history, but in this case the look and feel of it made me feel like I had traveled back to 1845. Some found the series slow, but I didn't mind the pace. They managed to maintain the suspense and tension until the very end.

    • @johnbooth9957
      @johnbooth9957 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      That was amazing

    • @clemdane
      @clemdane 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@meddle98 I envy you watching it for the first time!

    • @robparker1227
      @robparker1227 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Why did Hickey abduct Crozier near the end? Given that he later stated he wasn't trying to escape (I'd assumed he needed Crozier to pilot the ship, to which they were supposedly returning) it didn't make sense, unless it was something to do with delivering the chief to the creature?

    • @MackerelCat
      @MackerelCat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Actually I found it disappointing

    • @zmajodnocaja5088
      @zmajodnocaja5088 ปีที่แล้ว

      the monster made it unwatchable for me. what a load of s-h-i-t

  • @EireForTheIrish
    @EireForTheIrish 3 ปีที่แล้ว +453

    Been fascinated and obsessed with this mystery for years now... I can't even open a tin of beans without thinking about these poor souls and what they went through....

    • @louise_rose
      @louise_rose 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I know, and you are far from alone. I first read about it in a book (from the 1920s) about the history of polar exploration - very good book by the way, it tells of many expeditions you won't find in most popular books - and of course also about the many expeditions that came to searxh for them. It's such an amazing, tragic drama. Franklin and his men were lost, but the wave of rescue expeditions helped clear up the geography of much of the high north. It's fortyy years since I read that book for the first time, and I was thrilled when the ships were actually found, in good condition in the cold water, a couple of years ago. I hope at least one of them can be lifted some day and restored, sort of, in a museum further south.

    • @harrietharlow9929
      @harrietharlow9929 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      All the stories of the early polar expeditons are poignant, but the two that haunt me are the Franklin and Scott expeditions.

    • @lonemaus562
      @lonemaus562 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Idk why that made me laugh lol

    • @sergiobarros2697
      @sergiobarros2697 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@louise_rose do you remember the name of the 20’s book you mentioned…looks interesting.

    • @55elledge
      @55elledge 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I found out about the Franklin expedition when I was in elementary school shortly after the exhumations on beechy island. Now they have found both ships, in a remarkable state of preservation. They almost look like the could be pumped out and refloated. Almost exactly in the spot where the natives in the area said it was.

  • @brettspieleiq2384
    @brettspieleiq2384 2 ปีที่แล้ว +553

    For me, the monster in the amazon series always was just a symbol of all the things the crew could not understand about the far north and the cold and the dangers that were out there or that they only imagined. I'm not normally into horror movies, but man was that series great!

    • @sean5558
      @sean5558 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Wasn’t it an AMC series

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      sean Yes, it was really good too.

    • @richardmalcolm1457
      @richardmalcolm1457 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@sean5558 It was an AMC series, but Amazon carries it, and I suspect most people have seen it via Amazon.

    • @benharbak
      @benharbak 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I read the book years before the AMC series and it's well worth the read. Dan Simmons is a masterful author and captures the hopelessness and bone-chilling cold the crews must have felt.

    • @zmajodnocaja5088
      @zmajodnocaja5088 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      no, it's just a stupid monster a bad writer invented because he couldn't write an interesting novel despite the fact the real story is astonishing.

  • @tomhutchins7495
    @tomhutchins7495 2 ปีที่แล้ว +343

    Just a quick note on decoupling the screw propeller: while it is certainly a benefit that hauling the screw inside the hull would protect it from ice, the main reason this was done was because the screw was an emergency propulsion. Early steam engines were inefficient, used coal very quickly, and combined with the small coal bunkers on board this meant they were only used if the ship were dangerously becalmed. The reason you pull the screw out of the water is that trailing a static screw produces a lot of drag.

    • @richardmalcolm1457
      @richardmalcolm1457 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Good points. Add to that that Franklin only had enough coal to do 12 days full steaming. Much is made of Terror's and Erebus's propulsion as a great advance; but while it was certainly an improvement on any previous polar expedition, it really would have been of only very limited, sparing use. Virtually all of their voyage would have been under sail power only.

    • @eliotreader8220
      @eliotreader8220 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@richardmalcolm1457 i understand both of the steam engines that powered both ships was adapted underpowered steam locomotives instead of marine type stationary steam engines. I understand the Royal navy brought them cheap. i expect they got through a lot of fuel getting up steam every time they used them

    • @richardmalcolm1457
      @richardmalcolm1457 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@eliotreader8220 Right. Just so. A key reason the RN did this was not just the low cost, but also the limited space. EREBUS and TERROR were small (sub-400 tons) and maritime engines and the requisite coal supply would have eaten up much of the room in the hold needed for food supplies.

    • @Katpiratefan275
      @Katpiratefan275 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Well, the locomotive engine would be rendered useless then, a giant paper weight. It's top speed would have only been 4 knots. And looking at maps of the Arctic, you can't go very fast either without being extremely careful, not without running the risk of ripping your keel out from under you. I understand they thought having a locomotive engine and propeller on board was a good idea, but in the case of Arctic exploration, would have been a better idea to look at other options or other use of space.

    • @richardmalcolm1457
      @richardmalcolm1457 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@Katpiratefan275 In truth, the better idea would have been not to send it at all! Well - or at least, to send a radically different kind mission. It's generally accepted that Franklin had very little chance of succeeding, even had the climate not been so adverse in 1846-48.

  • @JD_79
    @JD_79 2 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    The food cans are such a hotly debated topic that we will never really know what state the food was in. It has been speculated that the food provided for this expedition was actually considered good by the standards of the time and that the quality went downhill sometime later. I have read accounts that the Navy was using this food source elsewhere in service for years before they began to encounter problems with it. Additionally, while the lead sealing the cans is an issue it was not nearly as much lead as they were receiving from the water system piping and, as scary as this sounds, was not considered an excessive amount of lead exposure over what the average British subject was being exposed to already. Again, this is speculative. Lead poisoning may have been a big factor or might have paled in comparison to the scurvy the crew was certainly experiencing three years into the expedition.

    • @felixbeutin8105
      @felixbeutin8105 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Also the lead would be electrochemically attracted to the tin in the cans

    • @mariakelly1059
      @mariakelly1059 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I read a very interesting nonfiction book called Iceblink that explores the lead poisoning theory extensively.

    • @tomhenry897
      @tomhenry897 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This was government contractors makeing the food
      Even in WW2 they took short cuts

    • @kimraudenbush427
      @kimraudenbush427 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Actually, the lead poisoning alone was enough to doom the expedition. What you need to remember is that the poisoning itself didn't kill most of them, the RESULTS of the poisoning did. One of the effects is reduced concentration, meaning you can't think clearly, and are more likely to make bad decisions. It also weakens the muscles. Below is a list of lead poisoning symptoms quoted from the Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registration website:
      "Continuum of Signs and Symptoms of Ongoing Lead Exposure [ATSDR 2010]
      Lowest Exposure Dose Signs and Symptoms: Impaired Cognitive Abilities/Subclinical Neuro/Psychoneuro/Neurobehavioral Findings (patient may appear asymptomatic)
      Decreased learning and memory
      Decreased verbal ability
      Early signs of hyperactivity or ADHD
      Impaired speech and hearing functions
      Lowered IQ
      Low Exposure Dose Signs and Symptoms
      Irritability
      Lethargy
      Mild fatigue
      Myalgia or paresthesia
      Occasional abdominal discomfort
      Moderate Exposure Dose Signs and Symptoms
      Arthralgia
      Constipation
      Difficulty concentrating/Muscular exhaustibility
      Diffuse abdominal pain
      General fatigue
      Headache
      Tremor
      Vomiting
      Weight loss
      High Exposure Dose Signs and Symptoms
      Colic (intermittent, severe abdominal cramps)
      Encephalopathy-may abruptly lead to seizure, change in consciousness, coma, and death
      Paresis or paralysis"

  • @ImCarolB
    @ImCarolB 2 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Even if I learn nothing new about the Franklin Expedition, which was not the case here, I have to listen to every podcast I encounter. It's so horribly fascinating.

  • @garyreid6165
    @garyreid6165 2 ปีที่แล้ว +177

    I have never heard of this story. When AMC brought The Terror to the small screen, I began to wonder. Expeditions like these were siren calls to adventurers, either experienced or novice. The show was a very handsome production. I remember having to applaud the production design, props and especially the wardrobe. The cast was also top notch, as well.
    In that environment, where it is always cold and food is scarce, God only knows what was running through the crews of The Terror and Erebus. They were fighting multiple battles on multiple fronts from within and without and they lost their lives.

    • @jebediahkrimsoncraftleding3012
      @jebediahkrimsoncraftleding3012 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The book by Dan Simmons, by the same name, is incredible. It's incredibly oppressive, so it took me a bit to get through, but if you enjoyed the show I imagine you'd love the book.

  • @cavemanstyle1376
    @cavemanstyle1376 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    "The Terror" series was phenomenal. An amazingly dark piece of art. The sense of dread and despair is unrelenting.

    • @DoubleRainbows667
      @DoubleRainbows667 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@hey it's pete cry about it

    • @DannieKamete
      @DannieKamete ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @hey it's pete Cringe how? Go read a book and increase your vocabulary. He's using language the way it's meant to be used. If you've ever seen The Terror, this description absolutely spot on

    • @Clovernoris
      @Clovernoris 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@heyitspete6472 look in the mirror bozo

  • @b1646717
    @b1646717 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I would resort to cannibalism as soon as we miss dinner.

  • @admanios
    @admanios ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I feel like it's worth mentioning that Dr. John Rae was the one who reported to the Admiralty that the Inuit had discovered evidence of cannibalism among the Franklin crew. Franklin's wife took offense to that and had Rae's name dragged through the mud for taking the Inuit at their word.

    • @tomhaskett5161
      @tomhaskett5161 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      She got Charles Dickens to weigh in on the controversy. Later, Dickins and Wilkie Collins wrote a play about it called "The Frozen Deep"

    • @barbararice6650
      @barbararice6650 ปีที่แล้ว

      What kind of cunts watch people starve 👈😕

  • @apancher
    @apancher 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Wow, this had me entranced from start to finish. The idea of anyone not from that area surviving in the wilderness for over a decade is mindblowing.

  • @Alan-ej6wb
    @Alan-ej6wb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +706

    I was able to go to beechy island and one of my most prized possessions is some rusty tin from the cans.

    • @MaritimeHorrors
      @MaritimeHorrors  3 ปีที่แล้ว +139

      That's an awesome keepsake!

    • @Del-Canada
      @Del-Canada 3 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      Don't reuse it though or try to lick the insides.

    • @alanluscombe8a553
      @alanluscombe8a553 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@MaritimeHorrors thanks, I must say I am assuming it was from franklins men because I don’t know if it may have been some of the supplies that were left for them.

    • @notbillcosby2499
      @notbillcosby2499 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Holy crap that’s awesome

    • @robertstone9988
      @robertstone9988 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Be careful some places there's laws against collecting what might be historical artifacts. I know where I live if I was to find like a Roman coin I have to turn into the museum if I keep it it's theft

  • @nobbynoris
    @nobbynoris 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    This expedition was definitely one of history's great "I wish I hadn't tried that" moments.

  • @clarsach29
    @clarsach29 2 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    The Dan Simmons novel "The Terror" is really worth a read. You get a vivid picture of the cold, the dark and the claustrophobia on board the ships marooned in the pack ice during polar night and of the misery and despair of scurvy and exhaustion as they trudged south.

    • @ZGryphon
      @ZGryphon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Sir Michael Palin (of Monty Python and travel documentaries fame) has also written a nonfiction book about the career of HMS _Erebus_ (and _Terror_ as well, since as exploration ships they always deployed together), which is less dramatized, but barely less dramatic. No monsters, though, apart from arguably the Admiralty.

  • @broaddusmarines
    @broaddusmarines 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I’ve watched season one of the Terror three times over. Probably the best thing I’ve watched all year.

    • @TypeZeta2
      @TypeZeta2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Season one of The Terror is really good. Keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole time

  • @angelofthedead5589
    @angelofthedead5589 2 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    Brought here by Wendigoon. This provided even more information on this tragedy. But one last thing… Crozier, as a true Irishman, was just built different.

    • @LaputanMachad
      @LaputanMachad 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      We're hard to kill

    • @VitZ9
      @VitZ9 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LaputanMachad Unless we are blowing ourselves up to get rid of the English.

    • @Goddot
      @Goddot ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@LaputanMachad God knows the Brits tried

    • @ComedyLoverGirl
      @ComedyLoverGirl ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Goddot Lol your dark sense of humour kills me.

    • @Balrog-tf3bg
      @Balrog-tf3bg ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He wanted one last drink

  • @krymera666x7
    @krymera666x7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    I’ve been to the gravesite of sailors from both the expedition and rescue party.
    It a cold and desolate place, but rather beautiful when I saw it in daylight.

  • @TUMARK2
    @TUMARK2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Even Lewis and Clark hoped to find a water route to the Pacific. It was one of their objectives. Which is why the took such a difficult and roundabout way west, rowing and pushing a boat upriver on the Mississippi

    • @forestshepherd253
      @forestshepherd253 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The Missouri, are you thinking of?They were not exploring the Mississippi during their expedition.

  • @spiffywolf2850
    @spiffywolf2850 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Getting sick and getting kicked from the trip might have seemed shit luck at the time but getting off those doomed vessels was a blessing lol

  • @charlottescat3794
    @charlottescat3794 3 ปีที่แล้ว +186

    I love this story. It was one of the stories (along with the story of the wreck of the Dutch ship Batavia - man is that a hell of a story) which has me considering going into Maritime Archaeology. Hopefully once I have finished my studies for work!

    • @MaritimeHorrors
      @MaritimeHorrors  3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Sounds like an interesting one, I will have to look into it. Thank you, and good luck with your studies.

    • @AtlasNL
      @AtlasNL 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      It certainly is an interesting story, and a beautiful ship. There’s a reconstruction in Lelystad in the Netherlands you can visit.

    • @jackpayne4658
      @jackpayne4658 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The historian Mike Dash wrote a great account of these events, 'Batavia's Graveyard'. You would be hard pressed to invent such an amazing tale - I'm very surprised that it isn't a film yet.

    • @richardmalcolm1457
      @richardmalcolm1457 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@MaritimeHorrors You might also consider a video on the disastrous 1786-89 Lapérouse Expedition - the parallels to Franklin are striking - kind of a Tropical Seas version of Franklin, and we know even less about its fate.

    • @lori5353
      @lori5353 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@MaritimeHorrors Will you also look into doing an episode about the tragic USS Jeannette Expedition? My great great grandfather survived both the USS Polaris Expedition (he was one of the seamen who survived being marooned on a drifting ice floe in Arctic conditions for 6 months) and the USS Jeannette Expedition (he survived months traversing Arctic Siberia trying to find civilization/help after their ship was crushed in the ice and sank). I inherited some of his personal belongings/documents that up until a few years ago had been stored away in a trunk in my parents attic for the past 30 years. I would gladly share photos/videos of the items upon request.

  • @jarcuadanantus28
    @jarcuadanantus28 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    If you don’t like stuff, skip ahead.
    Me: Oh what is it just some bones or something?
    Well. That face will haunt my nightmares forever now.

    • @gl540
      @gl540 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      they said they would provide timestamps and i was so ready i skip ahead but.... 😃😃???????

    • @watermelonspice513
      @watermelonspice513 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      bOnEs

    • @vmm5163
      @vmm5163 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      His teeth were the finest teeth I've ever seen

    • @vitamemec4708
      @vitamemec4708 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      LMAO same. How does one unsee it

  • @theghostofsetokaiba3761
    @theghostofsetokaiba3761 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    I have been obsessed with this mystery for awhile now. One thing I watched on another documentary said that the climate at the time was going through a harsher winter than normal. I believe Franklin died of stress from the expectation & condition of the exploration.

    • @williamjnothingburgeresq
      @williamjnothingburgeresq 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Nah, he was ripped apart by an Eskimo polar bear spirit. I saw it on tv

    • @MaritimeHorrors
      @MaritimeHorrors  2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I saw that documentary, very informative.

    • @Iron-Bridge
      @Iron-Bridge 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Nah, Tun Baaq killed him bro.

    • @richardmalcolm1457
      @richardmalcolm1457 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      "I believe Franklin died of stress from the expectation & condition of the exploration." Well....Franklin was 59 and in poor health when the expedition set out in 1845 - this is noted in much of the last correspondence sent home from Disko Bay by officers and men. Seems reasonable to think that the hardship of two winters in the Arctic weakened him to the point where he could have been vulnerable to a number of dangerous illnesses - most likely, pneumonia. It's striking that the Victory Point and Gore Point notes by Franklin just weeks before his death state "All well." Franklin and his officers were likely assuming (not unreasonably) that leads would open up again that summer, and they'd resume their journey onward.

    • @williamjnothingburgeresq
      @williamjnothingburgeresq 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@richardmalcolm1457 no, I'm pretty sure it was the bear spirit. It ripped his leg off and threw him down a hole

  • @lejammiedodgere
    @lejammiedodgere 3 ปีที่แล้ว +157

    Great video my guy, you clearly put a lot of work into your vids!

    • @MaritimeHorrors
      @MaritimeHorrors  3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Hey shipmate, appreciate the support. Fan of your videos as well. Keep up the good work!

  • @phatlaluke
    @phatlaluke 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    It was homeward bound one night on the deep
    Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep
    I dreamed a dream and I thought it true
    Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew
    With one hundred seamen he sailed away
    To the frozen ocean in the month of May
    To seek a passage around the pole
    Where we poor seamen do sometimes go
    Through cruel hardships they mainly strove
    Their ship on mountains of ice was drove
    Only the Eskimo with his skin canoe
    Was the only one that ever came through
    In Baffin's Bay where the whale fish blow
    The fate of Franklin no man may know
    The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell
    Lord Franklin along with his sailors do dwell
    And now my burden it gives me pain
    For my long lost Franklin I'd cross the main
    Ten thousand pounds I would freely give
    To say on earth that my Franklin do live

  • @NashmanNash
    @NashmanNash 2 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    To think that with steam engines actually meant for ships(and fuel for more than 12 days) Erebus and Terror might have made it..But yeah...putting a partly disassembled steam locomotive with 25 HP on them was cheaper..
    Edit:To clarify..the tug that pulled Erebus out of harbor had a bit over 200 HP engines...

    • @bl7355
      @bl7355 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Even if Erebus & Terror had more powerful engines, their bows were not shaped for ice breaking. They would have simply piled up the ice in front of them.
      The engines were intended for pushing through calm water when conditions were favourable.
      Getting iced in for one, possibly two winters was always expected to be a reality of the voyage. That is why it took ages before any rescues were attempted because it was assumed the ships were just doing what was planned.
      Also, tugs are/were designed for power, not range. A tug with a 200hp engine has the benefit of being able to go alongside every day.

    • @richardmalcolm1457
      @richardmalcolm1457 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Oh, how I wish that were true. But even a propulsion system like HMS RATTLER's (200hp screw) woudn't have got them through Victoria Strait's pack ice. The first problem is, TERROR and EREBUS were too small for a plant like that, let alone the amount of coal they'd need to operate it for any length of time. The second problem is...well, really, as @B L says above, you need a modern icebreaker to get through at all; this is true today, too. No wooden steam warship of the 1840's was adequate to the job. This is just one more aspect in which the Franklin Expedition was poorly conceived.

  • @jimhjortsberg2990
    @jimhjortsberg2990 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Franklin: Uses military grade vessels with a combined weight of over a 1000 tons, over a hundred crew members and government sponsorship in order to claim the northwest passage but ends up dying in failure.
    Amundsen: Takes 6 people with him in a modified 45 ton fishing boat and claims the northwest passage because he can.

    • @blastproces
      @blastproces 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The timing for the Franklin lot was bad due to unusual cold summers at that time not bad seamanship

    • @jimhjortsberg2990
      @jimhjortsberg2990 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@blastproces i dont think i claimed any such either. Just made an observation regarding scale.

    • @cyberpunk-2O77
      @cyberpunk-2O77 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jimhjortsberg2990 if anything, the government being involved in the supply of the ship made it worse

    • @throbbingfellow1136
      @throbbingfellow1136 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@cyberpunk-2O77Agreed, the admiralty wasn’t exactly known for making the best decisions.

    • @Pewnhound112
      @Pewnhound112 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Amundsen was not forging upon uncharted territory. Massive, MASSIVE detail in those days.

  • @Lakridza67
    @Lakridza67 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    My grandmother was an Amundsen. I often think of CPT. Crozier, and his wisdom in navigating this passage. I loved the show ‘The Terror’. Ross was depicted brilliantly in this show. Franklin was played beautifully by C. Hinds.

  • @richardmalcolm1457
    @richardmalcolm1457 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    @5:36 - Just a niggle: It's a commonplace that Francis Crozier was rejected out of hand to command the expedition, and rejected specifically because of his Irish background. In fact, however, the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Haddington, had consistent misgivings about Sir John Franklin's fitness for the job (due to his age and health) when Franklin's name was mooted, and apparently privately approached Crozier to offer him the job at the end of 1844. Crozier, racked by depression, turned Haddington down. He wrote about it to his friend, Sir James Ross, as to why he turned it down. "In truth, I sincerely feel I am not equal to the hardship. I am, in truth, still of opinion as to my own unfitness to lead. You, on that subject as well as all others, know my whole mind." (30 December, 1844) It is the great irony of Crozier that the command was nonetheless thrust on him in the worst possible circumstances in June 1847, when Franklin died during the expedition's third summer, while the ships were frozen in pack ice off King William Island.

    • @matthew-dq8vk
      @matthew-dq8vk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah, I think if there were any mumblings about Croziers Irish heritage it would have come from Barrow. Barrow was definitely kind of one of those 'British discoveries should be made by english sailors'' types. Can't really do anything about it if Haddington tells him to hush though, Nice to hear at least Haddington knew Crozier should have been the one

    • @richardmalcolm1457
      @richardmalcolm1457 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@matthew-dq8vk It's a good question, actually. I've not dug into Barrow's correspondence enough to sort out just what his real view of Crozier was; but in broad strokes, I don't disagree with you. (The irony is, the first commander to complete the Northwest Passage was an Irishman anyway!)

    • @matthew-dq8vk
      @matthew-dq8vk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@richardmalcolm1457 Sure, It definitely wasn't the whole admiralty and I think certain pieces of Franklin lore like to exaggerate how bad Crozier was treated due to being Irish. It was probably there, but not to the extent it's mythologized. He was northern Irish after all and upper middle class.

  • @jarrodsoos1417
    @jarrodsoos1417 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I just found your videos and am blown away by the quality all around, from the details, sound quality, your voice and reading quality. I love hearing videos on my way to work and this is definitely a channel ill use and am glad I found!

  • @vicstanfieldshire7754
    @vicstanfieldshire7754 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Stan Rogers song about The Northwest Passage is so good, now this video shows up and you have given it new life. Thanks so much

  • @boowiebear
    @boowiebear 2 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    12 years he survived. Incredible.

    • @mariuszmiroslaw2290
      @mariuszmiroslaw2290 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      But by that time this person would have come to civilization. Well, unless it would actually be him. As a commander who lost all of his souls, he would actually have no reason to come back.

  • @ashkash8686
    @ashkash8686 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    If that was crozier, he must have been one heck of a survivalist.

  • @lonemaus562
    @lonemaus562 2 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Could they really have been walking in the cold and dark for that many years ? I can’t imagain how that would be possible

    • @JD-tn5lz
      @JD-tn5lz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Not dark all year, summers of no dark. No doubt enough mosquitoes to darken the flesh in June and July.
      Another failure is often underestimating caloric needs. Pulling a sledge across terrain, or just packing all day, easily an five to eight thousand calories need per day

    • @CharlesFreck
      @CharlesFreck 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Individuals/small groups have been known to accomplish some truly epic feats at times. They might have had some years there where they actually got very lucky with hunting. They might have had more knowledge then we presume. They could have been aided by the Inuit. I know here in Australia, many of our early explorers survived solely because the local Aboriginals would give them food and shelter for a while. It's odd that the Inuit didn't have any accounts like this, of taking any of the last survivors in. Maybe that's cultural? Still, I don't imagine the Inuit were such cold people that they wouldn't have potentially given some food to the smaller parties out of pity.

    • @lisacepluch1152
      @lisacepluch1152 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@CharlesFreck I was just thinking the same thing. Surely if the Inuit people had seen man walking within a reasonable distance they would have attempted to help them.

    • @vmm5163
      @vmm5163 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@lisacepluch1152 the Innuit may not have offered help if they thought the men were cannibals. Probably keeping their distance would have been the wisest thing

    • @briancrawford8751
      @briancrawford8751 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@CharlesFreck The Inuit could not feed themselves and their children AND a bunch of sick sailors. They weren't going to jeopardize their own lives and well-being for the sake of a bunch of strangers.

  • @JJDoggett
    @JJDoggett 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Great video! Learnt some new info here, the bit about the Inuit finding one of the ships is really interesting and very spooky too knowing what had gone on.
    Appreciate the warning about THOSE photos too, I find this mystery fascinating but I have watched videos where they just put them up and more than one book on the subject has them on the cover!

  • @WojciechP915
    @WojciechP915 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage
    To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea
    Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage
    And make a Northwest Passage to the sea

  • @jeffblacky
    @jeffblacky ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I ran into a old British veteran during a DDay convention back in 1982
    His great grand uncle served on the Erebus . The family never heard from him again and assumed died

  • @justinmelendez9875
    @justinmelendez9875 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Fun fact: two of the newest maps added to TF2 Halloween rotation were named Erebus and Terror, named after these ships

  • @Mysucculentchinesemeal
    @Mysucculentchinesemeal 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I love maritime history. I can’t believe this is the first time I’ve seen this channel. Very cool idea you have here, I look forward to a rainy day off to watch everything.

  • @elscruffomcscruffy8371
    @elscruffomcscruffy8371 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    The Terror Tv Series is bloody brilliant!
    What a great video. Thank you!

  • @Brian-nw2bn
    @Brian-nw2bn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Your videos are brilliant man! Somethin about maritime mysteries is just perfect to fall asleep to. Keep up the great work brother youll blow up in no time! Godspeed!

  • @captainahab1533
    @captainahab1533 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Found your channel literally just this morning, when I watched this video. Holy shit man... This stuff is pure gold!

  • @Leprechaunlock
    @Leprechaunlock 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Oh man I been excited for you to cover this one

    • @MaritimeHorrors
      @MaritimeHorrors  3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yea, this one was pretty brutal, but none the less interesting!

  • @tylera.2869
    @tylera.2869 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    If you enjoy this story, I highly recommend playing The Pale Beyond. The story in the game is different, but the events are similar.

  • @neiloflongbeck5705
    @neiloflongbeck5705 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    In case you don't know this - Sir is a title that goes with the person's first name and not their surname. So in the case of Sir James Ross it's Sir James nor Sir Ross.

  • @stephenhester9804
    @stephenhester9804 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Always had an interest in this, one of my ancestors was among the crew of the first Ships that went looking for them.

    • @vmm5163
      @vmm5163 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow that's impressive 👍👍👍

  • @alevine1951
    @alevine1951 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Superbly well-presented post on all levels. Surely no shortage of maritime horrors - bring 'em on! Deserves more subs - just added mine.

  • @ColFork85
    @ColFork85 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Great video again, worth the small wait!

  • @MaritimeHorrors
    @MaritimeHorrors  2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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  • @nitinh2499
    @nitinh2499 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great video! I’m in awe of the bravery of sailors who set out on expeditions like this, even though they knew that they might never make it back. It takes a lot of courage to sign up for a journey like this one. May their souls Rest in Peace.

  • @Katpiratefan275
    @Katpiratefan275 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I almost think that some could have survived if they made the trek back to Beechey island. It's half the distance than going south to Backs fish River, they still had a camp set up there, they have hunted game there before, and if anyone came looking, that would be one of the earliest places they would have been found

  • @jay-kg8ke
    @jay-kg8ke 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    The terror season one was a great show.

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I really enjoyed it. Have to get the book.

  • @nickbryant2318
    @nickbryant2318 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Recently found your channel, love the content. Your videos are teaching me some cool history and very interesting

  • @schnauzersrule8886
    @schnauzersrule8886 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One thing is for sure, these were tough men. Thank you for this episode. It was very good.

  • @SolamenteVees
    @SolamenteVees 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fantastic video. The Terror was completely engrossing- highly recommended.

  • @kbrynngonzales
    @kbrynngonzales 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    You should totally talk about The Endurance expedition led by Ernest Shackelton

  • @francessimmonds5784
    @francessimmonds5784 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    I read another account that said the Inuit that found the ship found some men alive on board, one of which warned them not to go near the tents, presumably because of cannibalism. I wonder which version is true.

    • @victoriadiesattheend.8478
      @victoriadiesattheend.8478 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Personally I believe that most of the Inuit stories are correct.

    • @patroberts5449
      @patroberts5449 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I also agree that the Inuit had no need to lie and would have been pretty horrified by the condition of these “explorers” and I say that because obviously the people that lived there were smarter and more equipped to deal with that environment.

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Interesting

    • @bloodyhell8201
      @bloodyhell8201 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@gsesquire3441 this is different though.

    • @lucasfragoso7634
      @lucasfragoso7634 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@gsesquire3441 not true for the inuit at least proven by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen the man who would reach the other side of the passage for the first time spent plenty of time living with and learning how to survive from the inuit which also helped him reach the south pole! Had they really wanted to mess with him he wouldn't have accomplished his goals

  • @christyler6234
    @christyler6234 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don’t know why this popped up in my feed, but I’m glad I watched it. Subscribed immediately thereafter, look forward to more videos. Great work here.

  • @jenniferchin429
    @jenniferchin429 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great presentation and case. I love learning about the old explorations of the arctic, and the hardships they faced. They showcase the indomitable human spirit of exploration and discovery.

  • @17Watman
    @17Watman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Historybuffs also did a video covering this story as well for those interested.

  • @gTheHun
    @gTheHun 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Great content! Good job, and if I could suggest: please add map with indications on what you are mentioning, instead of repeated cuts of the same picture; that would put things in better perspective. Keep up the good work 👏

  • @ieatbugsandplants9216
    @ieatbugsandplants9216 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just stumbled across your channel today man loving your work time to binge thanks for the quality uploads!

  • @Maritime_History
    @Maritime_History 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for having uploaded this. Very informational.

  • @vaclavholek4497
    @vaclavholek4497 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I remember watching the National Geographic documentary when they found the bodies in the 1980s. I was a kid back then, and have always had an interest in the Franklin Expedition since then.

  • @nunaninja
    @nunaninja 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I’m inuk from nunavut. It was thanks to our inuit oral history that the franklin ships were found. Franklin is but one in a long line of failures. Although he has been propped up as a brave explorer. If it were not for Inuit he would have died much sooner.

    • @annabananna77
      @annabananna77 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      agreed. many if not all “new world” explorers would have died without indigenous people saving them and teaching them

    • @MackerelCat
      @MackerelCat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I mean, someone had to explore and help us all get connected. If things had been different the labels explorer and native and new world would just be applied to different people and places and there would just be different stories of tragedies.

    • @honeybadger6275
      @honeybadger6275 ปีที่แล้ว

      no you're not lmao

    • @nunaninja
      @nunaninja ปีที่แล้ว

      @@honeybadger6275 excuse me?

    • @honeybadger6275
      @honeybadger6275 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nunaninja i called you a filthy liar

  • @h.m.s.thunderchild8518
    @h.m.s.thunderchild8518 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Vey, very well done lad. Exceptionally measured and not at all overblown for the sake of theatrics, views or likes. Many a channel could learn from this video.

  • @rogerrendzak8055
    @rogerrendzak8055 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good documentary 👍!! I'm a history buff, and know a tiny bit about, The Northwest Passage. My brother and I, had the boardgame 'Northwest Passage' circa 1972 (remember that?). A game, where there were 4, different colored, oil tankers (2"). You toss toss dice, and advance your ship through, the ice routes, picking up barrels of oil (which looked like, orange notebook paper, donuts ⭕), along the way. You'd stick them onto, the ship's smokestacks. Whoever possessed, the most disc's at the end, wins the game. I used to love, playing it!! But, the box itself had some information about, The Northwest Passage, and that's what introduced me, to this.

  • @dunkace
    @dunkace 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Ever since watching The Terror I have been fascinated by this event. Brilliant video

  • @annikabjornson998
    @annikabjornson998 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The Terror is a fascinating book. A whole lot of fiction tossed in, but it’s a great read. I haven’t watched the show as the book was scary enough for me. And then there’s the monster too.

    • @JulikaJune
      @JulikaJune ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello 👋, it's my pleasure to connect with you on here. I'm originally from Brazil but currently living here in United States, Austin Texas. If you don't mind me asking, where are you from

  • @samuelhavens4455
    @samuelhavens4455 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just found your channel. Can’t wait to watch more! So good.

  • @koreycowan1976
    @koreycowan1976 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The mini series that was on the AMC channel about this expedition was AWSOME!

  • @DerpyPossum
    @DerpyPossum 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I can’t be the only one thinking of that one Stan Rogers song, right?

  • @terrybardy2848
    @terrybardy2848 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is a very good video! Quite well presented and very interesting. Thank you! Great job! Bravo!

    • @MaritimeHorrors
      @MaritimeHorrors  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I truly appreciate the kind words, shipmate.

  • @hammysauce
    @hammysauce 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was obsessed with this when I was in 3rd grade! Couldn't stop telling my mom about the cool book with the frozen mummies!

  • @frankb821
    @frankb821 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow, well presented with great, haunting visuals and atmospheric music!

  • @docrussian1806
    @docrussian1806 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So this is what Stan Roger's was singing about.

  • @skookapalooza2016
    @skookapalooza2016 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Your channel is growing because of your excellent content, sir. You have a great channel and hope to see you soon reach 50,000 subscribers. I don't think it will take very long.

  • @straswa
    @straswa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great vid MH. RIP to all those poor men.

  • @TroupeGoal
    @TroupeGoal 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Terror brought me here. Fantastic show. This video was v interesting on the background

  • @magsbulldog
    @magsbulldog 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Great watch . I went to Orkney and and found out about John Rae which lead me here. Thanks for posting.

    • @TartanCatholic
      @TartanCatholic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Terrible how Dr John Rae was treated, I'm from Kirkwall.

  • @operationcreation5583
    @operationcreation5583 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Wow,such a great video, very informative and entertaining

  • @benisaten
    @benisaten 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Really enjoying the channel, good work. Respects from 🇨🇦.

  • @slyaspie4934
    @slyaspie4934 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video glad I just search for Franklin think I'll checking out your other stuff, thank you

    • @MaritimeHorrors
      @MaritimeHorrors  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Much obliged, shipmate. Glad you enjoyed it.

  • @PNWdad365
    @PNWdad365 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    As someone who's dad served on a submarine and who grew up near a navy shipyard and naval base, I love everything maritime.

  • @chubbysolaireeaterofpussy3192
    @chubbysolaireeaterofpussy3192 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

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    • @MaritimeHorrors
      @MaritimeHorrors  3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I greatly appreciate the support, shipmate. In all honesty though my first video was posted two months ago. So I don't think I'm doing too bad so far. But all the same, appreciate the love.

    • @johnnycash1365
      @johnnycash1365 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Over 7 billion people on the planet and I've not seen 1 comment underrating this channel. Hate these type of comments.

    • @chubbysolaireeaterofpussy3192
      @chubbysolaireeaterofpussy3192 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @joyelizabethmellinger
    @joyelizabethmellinger ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How am I only just finding this channel?? Wow, man. Great content. Incredibly well narrated. Glad I came across this. New subscriber, bell is rung. 👍💯

  • @scofab
    @scofab 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    A most excellent recounting, well done and thank you once again.