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Appendix Two
Major expeditions involved in the search for HMS Erebus and HMS Terror:
1846–47 Dr. John Rae (overland)
1847–49 Sir John Richardson and Dr. John Rae (overland)
1848–49 Captain Sir James Clark Ross, Captain E.J. Bird (HMS Enterprise & HMS Investigator)
1848–50 Captain Henry Kellett (HMS Herald)
1848–52 Captain Thomas Moore (HMS Plover)
1849–50 Lieutenant James Saunders (HMS North Star)
1850–51 U.S. Navy Lieutenant Edwin J. De Haven, U.S. Navy Lieutenant S.P. Griffin (Advance & Rescue)
1850–51 Captain Horatio Austin, Captain Erasmus Ommanney, Lieutenant Sherard Osborn, Lieutenant Bertie
Cator (HMS Resolute, HMS Assistance, HMS Intrepid, HMS Pioneer)*
1850–51 Captain William Penny, Alexander Stewart (Lady Franklin & Sophia)*
1850–51 Rear Admiral Sir John Ross (Felix)
1850 Captain C.C. Forsyth (Prince Albert)
1850–55 Captain Richard Collinson (HMS Enterprise)
1850–54 Commander Robert McClure (HMS Investigator)
1851 Dr. John Rae (overland)
1851–52 Captain William Kennedy (Prince Albert)
1852 Commander Edward Augustus Inglefield (Isabel)
1852–54 Captain Sir Edward Belcher, Sherard Osborn, Captain Henry Kellett, Commander Francis Leopold M’Clintock (HMS Assistance, HMS Pioneer, HMS Resolute, HMS Intrepid)
1852–54 William John Samuel Pullen (HMS North Star)
1853 Captain Edward Augustus Inglefield, William Fawckner (HMS Phoenix & HMS Breadalbane)
1853–54 Dr. John Rae (overland)*
1853–55 U.S. Navy Dr. Elisha Kent Kane (Advance)
1855 Chief Factor John Anderson (overland)
1857–59 Captain Francis Leopold M’Clintock, Lieut. William Robert Hobson (Fox)*
1869 Charles Francis Hall (overland)*
1878–80 U.S. Lieut. Frederick Schwatka (overland)*
*Made significant discoveries of Franklin expedition relics
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There are a great many publications relating to the preparation for, and loss of, the 1845–48 Franklin expedition, as well as the subsequent searches and contemporary research. The following bibliography is not definitive, but it does include sources that allow the reader to explore the complexities of historical and scientific research into the disaster. Each of the entries has been used by the authors as information and/or illustration sources.
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Newspapers and magazines used include:
The Anthenaeum, 17 February 1849, 17 November 1849
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, November 1855
Edmonton Journal, 9 September 1930
Edmonton Sun, 24 September 1984, 26 September 1984, 21 October 1984
Illustrated London News, 24 May 1845, 12 October 1850, 18 February 1854, 28 October 1854, 15 October 1859, 1 January 1881
The Times, 26 April 1845, 12 May 1845, 23 December 1851, 3 January 1852, 5 January 1852, 20 January 1852
Toronto Globe 4 April 1850, 30 April 1850, 23 October 1854, 25 October 1854, 11 October 1859
Other material was derived from primary sources, including various Parliamentary Papers of Great Britain (post-1847), the Arctic Blue Books, the Muster Books of the Erebus and Terror, National Archives (UK); Admiralty medical journal, HMS Enterprize, 1848–49, ADM 101/99/4, National Archives (UK); the collection of the Hydrographic Department, Ministry of Defence (UK) for the letter from E.A. Inglefield to Sir Francis Beaufort, 14 September 1852; the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, for the letter from Harry D.S. Goodsir, to his uncle, 2 July 1845; the British Library (Barrow Bequest, Add. Ms. 35306, section 4) for the letter from E.A. Inglefield to John Barrow, 14 September 1852; Donald Bray for the letter from Sarah Hartnell and Charles Hartnell to John and Thomas Hartnell, 23 December 1847.
Index
Numbers in italic indicate figures.
All numbers refer to pages in the print edition.
Admiralty, 18–19, 37, 47–48, 57–59, 65, 73, 146–47
Advance, 69–72, 231
Air support, Beattie expeditions, 107, 119, 130–31, 152–53, 189–90, 204–5, 212