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Archaeologist Marc-André Bernier carefully excavates a seamen’s chest in the forecastle (crew living quarters) on the lower deck of HMS Erebus in 2023. Brett Seymour, Parks Canada ...

Sir Michael Palin and Dan Snow explore the storied history of HMS Terror and Erebus, two bomb ships that were repurposed for polar exploration in the 19th century ...

A recent scientific paper shed light on the gruesome ends for the expedition’s sailors, confirming that James Fitzjames, the captain of the HMS Erebus, was the first identified victim of ...

Franklin expedition captain who died in 1848 was cannibalized by survivors Scientists matched DNA of living descendent to Capt. James Fitzjames of the HMS Erebus.

This oil painting by the Belgian marine artist François Etienne Musin (1820–1888) refers to HMS ‘Erebus’s’ Arctic venture under the command of Sir John Franklin in 1845.

Captain James Fitzjames served as captain of the HMS Erebus, but his rank didn't prevent his men from eating his remains in a desperate bid to survive.

Parks Canada research assistant Jonathan Puqiqnak at the artifact washing station on the barge Qiniqtirjuaq, cleaning an officer’s cabin corner shelf recovered from HMS Erebus in September 2022.

Filippo Ronca, an underwater archaeologist and dive safety officer who worked on HMS Erebus and Terror, has won his job back thanks to a labour board decision that reveals deep divisions and ...

Severe storms are another twist in the horrifying tale of these British ships wrecked in the Canadian Arctic nearly 180 years ago.

What happened to HMS Erebus and HMS Terror? Franklin’s lost expedition, as it’s known, was waved off from the Kent coast in 1845 with the 59-year-old British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer ...