In May 1845, one of England’s most storied naval officers, Sir John Franklin, launched an expedition to discover the ...

Sir John Franklin set out with two ships, the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror, to find the Northwest Passage. They vanished without a trace, sparking one of history's great maritime puzzles. For years, ...

This summer, the Crystal Cruises' Serenity — the largest passenger cruise ship ever to attempt to navigate through the treacherous waters of the famed Northwest Passage — will depart from ...

The United States should consider working with Canada to open an equivalent shipping route to bolster its commercial and ...

Into the Ice,” a travelogue, historical mystery and memoir, recounting a sail through the Northwest Passage, will appeal to ...

Born around 1539, Martin Frobisher spent his life plundering Spanish and French ships. According to records kept shipmate George Best, Frosbisher thought he had found the fabled Northwest Passage.

The only written record ever found of the disastrous Franklin Northwest Passage expedition of ... near where Franklin's ships had become irretrievably beset in pack ice in 1846.

The mystery of what happened to Franklin and all of his men has never been entirely solved, though the wrecks of both his ships were ... attempt to map the Northwest Passage from 1845-1847.