Category: HMS Erebus

• 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. May 20, 1845.

  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.

  May 20, 2024

  1800s, All Handa Are Lost, Franklin Expedition, History Daily, HMS Erebus, HMS Terror, Northwest Passage

  1800s, All hands are lost, Franklin Expedition, History Daily, HMS Erebus, HMS Terror, Northwest Passage