HMS Erebus took part in the Ross expedition of 1839-1843, and was abandoned in 1848 during the third Franklin expedition. The sunken wreck was discovered by the Canadian Victoria Strait Expedition ...

Underwater archaeologists conducted 68 dives over 12 days in September to continue investigating and documenting the wreck of HMS Erebus, Parks Canada said in a news release.The team excavated a ...

Divers conducted 68 missions in September last year to the HMS Erebus, which is positioned just 11 metres below the surface compared to Terror’s 24 metres.

Archaeologists recovered the HMS Erebus in 2014, centuries after the ship sank and its case went cold. New artifacts are sharing its secrets. The finds include a leather folio with an accompanying ...

Parks Canada’s underwater archaeology team explored the legendary shipwrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, lost on the ill-fated Franklin Expedition of 1845. Their research added to the body of ...

Parks Canada's underwater archeologists recovered 275 rare artifacts from the storied HMS Erebus shipwreck in the Canadian Arctic in September 2022.

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 ...

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.

HMS ‘Erebus’ and HMS ‘Terror’ were used in Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated attempt to discover the North-west Passage in 1845 (Getty) ...

James Fitzjames, captain of the HMS Erebus, made one of the handwritten notes on this document left in a stone cairn near Victory Point on King William Island, ...

As previously reported, Franklin's two ships, the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror, became icebound in the Victoria Strait, and all 129 crew members ultimately died. It has been an enduring mystery ...