Researchers recently identified James Fitzjames, a captain on the ill-fated HMS Erebus that went looking for the Northwest ...

The skeletal remains of a crew member from the Sir John Franklin's failed 1845 Northwest Passage expedition was given a name ...

Fitzjames, a seasoned Royal Navy officer, was part of Franklin’s 129-man crew, which set out to explore the Northwest Passage ...

Nigel Gambier has always been proud of his ancestor, who captained one of the ill-starred ships on Sir John Franklin's ...

The first known victim of cannibalism from the British Royal Navy's 1845 ill-fated Franklin expedition has been identified as ...

Another piece of the Franklin Expedition puzzle has dropped into place. However, like most new bits of information concerning ...

James Fitzjames was one of the captains of British explorer Sir John Franklin's two ships that went missing in 1845.

Now, thanks to DNA extracted from a single molar, researchers have identified one of these men as Captain James Fitzjames ...

Researchers have used DNA analysis to find that some of the remains on King William Island in Canada belong to a lad named ...

The skeletal remains of a senior officer of Sir John Franklin's 1845 Northwest Passage expedition have been identified by ...

Nigel Gambier has always been proud of his ancestor, who captained one of the ill-starred ships on Sir John Franklin's ...