Parks Canada’s underwater archaeology team explored the legendary shipwrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, lost on the ill-fated Franklin Expedition of 1845. Their research added to the body of ...

Author Ken McGoogan makes a strong case for his theory on the expedition, one that will be debated by notoriously fickle ...

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Nearly two centuries after the ships sank, divers exploring the HMS Erebus wreck have discovered an array of "fascinating artifacts," including pistols, coins and even an intact thermometer ...

Both rescuers and archaeologists have sought the wrecks of his two ships, Erebus and Terror, for nearly 170 years. Scott Youngblut, a Canadian government hydrographer, was heading out from Laurier ...

In May 1845, 129 British officers and crew members set out in search of the Northwest Passage on HMS “Erebus” and HMS “Terror.” None returned Meilan Solly ...

A new book argues that a deadly decision made decades before the doomed Franklin Expedition may finally explain why so many ...

In 1845, HMS Terror (and its forgettably named sister ship HMS Erebus) set off from Victorian Britain. Their quest was to discover the fabled Northwest passage through the Arctic ice. The crew were ...

Severe storms are another twist in the horrifying tale of these British ships wrecked in the Canadian Arctic nearly 180 years ago. Marine archaeologists are in a race against time to uncover the ...

It was Inuit oral history that led to the discovery of the Erebus wreck. The search would ... a researcher credited with helping find the ship, said, according to the parks department.