‘Gently slipped to the sea bed:’ Second ship of doomed Franklin expedition found
The second ship from Sir John Franklin’s doomed 19th-century search for the Northwest Passage has been located — right where an Inuit hunter said it would be.
“The ship is in remarkable condition,” Adrian Schimnowski of the Arctic Research Foundation, one of the groups involved in the search, said Monday from the research ship that located the HMS Terror.
“It looks like it gently slipped to the seabed floor.”
The Terror, one of two British navy vessels sent in 1845 to try to find the Northwest Passage, was discovered Sept. 3 in 24 metres of water in Terror Bay, a small indentation on the coast of King William Island west of the community of Gjoa Haven.