Wreck of HMS Erebus
HMS Erebus was the flagship of Sir John Franklin's lost Northwest Passage expedition of 1845. Beset in the ice off King William Island since 1846, she was abandoned in April 1848, and none of the crew came home. Her wreck was found in 2014 in 11 metres of water south of the island.
Dated events and their evidence
- 1845 CE mainstream
19 May: Erebus and Terror sail from Greenhithe under Sir John Franklin to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage source - 1848 CE mainstream
22 April: the 105 survivors desert Erebus and Terror, beset in the ice since September 1846, and start south on foot; Franklin had died in June 1847, and none of the men survive source - 2014 CE mainstream
7 September: the Canadian Victoria Strait expedition finds the wreck of Erebus in Wilmot and Crampton Bay, in 11 m of water; earlier Parks Canada searches had worked with Louie Kamookak's collection of Inuit oral histories source
Where
68.2335° N, 98.7055° W
The exact position is withheld to protect the wreck. The point is the centre of the protected area in Wilmot and Crampton Bay, from the four corner points given on Wikipedia.
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrecks_of_HMS_Erebus_and_HMS_Terror_National_Historic_Site
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%27s_lost_expedition
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Erebus_(1826)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Terror_(1813)
Each event carries Aion's own evidence grade (mainstream, disputed or speculative). This page repeats what the globe shows for this place.