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Image: Engraving of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror departing for the Arctic in 1845. (Public Domain)
On this day in history, May 20, 1845, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, with 134 men aboard, left Greenhithe, Kent, in England, beginning the disastrous Franklin expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All hands are lost.
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