Arctic explorer's abandoned ship found 168 years on

[theHandpuppet]

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/arctic-explorers-abandoned-ship-found-168-years-on-30575063.html
The Belfast Telegraph
Arctic explorer's abandoned ship found 168 years on
By David Wilcock – 10 September 2014

A British exploration ship captained by a Banbridge-born sailor and abandoned on an ill-fated mission to travel through the fabled North West Passage has been discovered after almost 170 years.

Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper has announced that scientists have found one of the two ships lost on the Franklin Expedition in the Arctic Ocean off the far north of the country.

The ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, were abandoned by Sir John Franklin's scientific expedition in 1846 after becoming trapped in the polar ice.

None of the more than 100-strong team survived the trek back to civilisation.... MORE at link posted above.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. Rec for the Wreck !!

[littlemissmartypants]

2. Kicking. Thank you. nt

[lumberjack_jeff]

3. What a coincidence

I'm reading a 2008 fiction book partly based on the events of the Franklin Expedition.

[Enthusiast]

4. I haven't read that one yet.

I like Clive Cussler.

[lumberjack_jeff]

5. A guilty pleasure.

Not exactly highbrow reading, but fun nonetheless.