![]() ![]() The fear of the open ocean is a very real phenomenon that millions of people around the world struggle with1899 certainly won’t help aid that fear. ![]() To read more about the Franklin Expedition and the discovery of Erebus, go to “ Franklin’s Last Voyage. Is Netflix’s new 1899 series based on a true story of Ghost Ships and the Bermuda Triangle Origins of terrifying new horror show explained. Both wrecks are remarkably well preserved and, in recent years, underwater archaeologists have explored the ships’ cabins and retrieved hundreds of objects, which are helping experts piece together the final days of Franklin’s fateful voyage. ![]() Two years later, Terror was found around 45 miles away. The mysterious fate of the ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, has captured the publics imagination for seventeen decades. In 2014, Canadian authorities announced that researchers had finally located Erebus at the bottom of Wilmot and Crampton Bay. In May 1845 two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, sailed from Britain to what is now Nunavut in Northern Canada. Search parties sent to northern Canada occasionally happened upon ominous clues: items left behind by the expedition, grim testimonies from Inuit witnesses, and even a note left by a crewman on King William Island in 1847 stating that the two ships had become trapped in the ice. The crews of two whaling ships that sighted the expedition that August were the last Europeans to see Franklin and his crew alive, sparking a nearly 170-year maritime mystery. Captain John Franklin set sail from England in May 1845 with 133 men and two ships-HMS Erebus and HMS Terror-in search of the Northwest Passage. ![]()
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