None would survive. These last members of Sir John Franklin’s doomed 129-man expedition to map the Northwest Passage all perished, many just a few miles from where they’d started—although the bodies ...

One hundred and twenty-eight men, led by one of Britain's most seasoned naval captains, set off from London in May of 1845 to pioneer a route through the icy Northwest Passage. Many sailors ...

More information: Douglas R. Stenton et al, Identification of a senior officer from Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage ...

a Royal Navy officer who disappeared on a doomed Northwest Passage expedition in Canada more than 175 years ago. Fitzjames ...