HMS Terror found - Arctic (OT)

That they managed to starve to death in a region of fat Eskimos is a story in itself.

Fans of history will no doubt remember Erebus and Terror, not just as pioneering vessels in the Arctic and Antarctic, but also for bombarding Fort McHenry in 1812. "The rockets' red glare" refers to rockets launched from them.

All of our epics pale in comparison to Franklin's.

All of our epics pale in comparison to Franklin's.

or Shackelton's

I like to read books on polar expeditions like The Arctic Grail on hot summer days.

Inuit oral historian who pointed way to Franklin shipwrecks dies aged 58

In 2008, Mr. Trudeau’s predecessor, Stephen Harper, apologized to indigenous people in the rest of Canada for a residential school program the federal government operated from the 19th century until 1996. A national Truth and Reconciliation Commission later condemned that system as a form of “cultural genocide.”

"The great aim of our legislation has been to do away with the tribal system and assimilate the Indian people in all respects with the other inhabitants of the Dominion as speedily as they are fit to change.” 1887 - John A McDonald. Architect of the Indian Act.

And I rather doubt that even the US Navy has taken submerged submarines through Suez and Panama Canals. Maybe on the surface..

As the news of Mr. O’Brady’s “first” spread across the media, Mr. Ousland wrote magnanimously on his Facebook page, “We congratulate Colin O’Bradly [sic] with his achievements in Antarctica.” But he added that he “was the first person to ski alone across Antarctica.” As he told me in an email: “It should not be necessary for me to have to stand up and fight for my ‘honor.’ I believe that I should be credited as the first to have crossed Antarctica solo and unsupported from coast to coast. Period.”

There was no margin for error as the James Caird would sail into the South Atlantic if he missed the island; this would mean almost certain death for those in the lifeboat but also those remaining on Elephant Island. Fortuitously, the weather was fine on the day of departure from the island and this allowed Worsley to obtain a sun sighting to ensure that his chronometer was rated.

On 8 May, through mists and squalls, the crew sighted South Georgia's Cape Demidov, precisely in line with the course calculated by Worsley.

The chronometer and a small watch were bequeathed to SPRI in 1943 by
F.A. Worsley, with the information recorded in the accession register
that they were used for navigation during the voyage of the lifeboat
James Caird from Elephant Island to South Georgia. Frank Worsley
recorded that "this chronometer, an excellent one of Smith's, was the
sole survivor, in good working order, of the twenty-four with which we
set out in the Endurance."

Brain fart about chronos with art hor. 🤡

Most such equipment then was made in Germany, and I suspect that the manufacturers got good promotion out of sending it to polar regions.

her masts could never have protruded, as they weren't that high

ps Slocum didn't have a sextant!

“On the forty-third day from land,—a long time to be at sea alone,—the sky being beautifully clear and the moon being "in distance" with the sun, I threw up my sextant for sights. I found from the result of three observations, after long wrestling with lunar tables, that her longitude by observation agreed within five miles of that by dead-reckoning.”

Excerpt From
Sailing Alone Around the World
Joshua Slocum

The want of a chronometer for the voyage was all that now worried me. In our newfangled notions of navigation it is supposed that a mariner cannot find his way without one; and I had myself drifted into this way of thinking. My old chronometer, a good one, had been long in disuse. It would cost fifteen dollars to clean and rate it. Fifteen dollars! For sufficient reasons I left that timepiece at home, where the Dutchman left his anchor.

And somebody needs to remind the Ottawa bureaucrats about the right to navigate.

The hunting buddy doesn't seem to be identified or quoted.