Search for the Lost Fleet of the Franklin Expedition

[@joshuaplotkin8826]

They are lost no more. After 168 years and more attempts to locate the wrecks than Titanic or Bismark, Franklin's ship has been found. A wooden vessel under water for 168 years, intact and preserved in the arctic. The ship is better preserved than the crew. We have found you Sir John Franklin, we have found you.

[@jimmeshtick8908]

Joshua Plotkin "Where are you one eyed Willy"

[@joekev27]

Funny part is the Inuit knew where it was for a while but no one listen to them.

[@ndfproductionsofficial4573]

Joshua Plotkin the “Terror” ship was also found recently. So both ships were found

[@terrybardy2923]

@@joekev27 It was the arrogance at the time. The Inuit at one point were unjustly blamed for the cannibalism of Franklin's men. I think Charles Dickens wrote about it in a magazine called "The Household Word." And also wrote a scathing review of Dr. Jon Rae's findings which were probably correct about the cannibalism among Franklin's men.

[@waynefurnell5354]

@Dan Chapowski shut the fuck up

[@holyfox94]

Update: as we all know, they found both ships. They found that Croziers desk drawers were sealed by him. Hope they open them up soon. I really don’t know what is taking them so long🤔

[@danielflanard8274]

Can't just do whatever you want with historical artifacts.

[@AlanpittsS2b]

I am eagerly waiting to hear about the contents in the desk as well.

[@runlarryrun77]

Desalination & preservation of artifacts that have been retrieved from the sea after more than a century can be a very lengthy process. I was 4 when the Mary Rose was brought up. They're still working on the preservation now.

[@Special_Tactics_Force_Unit]

@@danielflanard8274 yes you can

[@glennmandigo6069]

The Pandemic threw everything off

[@georgewaite2952]

The men of this expedition dreamed to find the Northwest Passage. This is a frozen world.Even Today,it can be treacherous.King William Island is a barren and desolute land.Very little grows here on KIng William Island.Inuit Oral History was mainly true on finding the 2 ships.The Inuit describe seeing the white men of Franklin's Expedition.Hungry and Tired ,the men of this expedition died in route to the Back Fish River.

[@TheFarmerfitz]

wow..this is interesting... even more so now that they have found one of the ships.... Depending on where they find the other one it might explain some things.... The question of why they dragged a life boat south across King William Island and the retreated back might now be that the crew from one ship was trying to get to the other ship, and then maybe only to find the other ship had sank????? So they tryed to retreat back to the one they left??? Who the heck knows eh?....

[@MonTube2006]

15:25 Since both ships were found in "shallow" water, is there evidence they've been somewhat dragged by pack ice / icebergs ? Underwater I mean

[@therabbitchannel2059]

Actually an umiak or oomiak is a large boat carrying multiple people and paddled by women. It's an Inuit boat. Opposed to a kyak which was a man's boat holding a single person. The white man's boat may have been called an oomiak but the name isn't exclusive to white men's boats.

[@seekter-kafa]

both of the ships where found after this documentary, though there were hints where they are

[@anibala.moralessanchez8018]

Yeah, finally listening to the Inuit testimonies. Oh the irony.

[@jimmythekiller8148]

Were the ships close to where they were looking in the doc?

[@ronclark9724]

@@jimmythekiller8148 One in each search area... With the Erebus they were lucky finding a heavy item on the beach from a helicopter landing, in which they changed their search pattern to a tighter area around the item... They weren't planning to search near that area for another year...

[@tomservo5347]

I know the ships are now found-seems like 'Terror' is sunk in water so shallow it can be seen from the air when the water is calm. I also wonder about all the bodies given sea burials through ice and whether they'd be preserved or would sea life have scavenged them. If Franklin died while ice bound they'd have definitely made a coffin that perhaps is preserved on the bottom somewhere.

[@launchedkode]

The masts were seen poking out the water for many a year according to Inuit

[@johnshields6852]

Wouldn't been great if those men could've seen this expedition, that ship and copter

[@normpaddle]

What makes you think they didnt?

[@georgewaite2952]

Only 2 or 3 of the entire franklin Expedition had experience in the Arctic Service.Lead Poisoning and Scurvy is what killed these men.Lastly,the brutal weather had been involved in their demise.Its hard to say any 1 of the above mentioned was the sole reason for their deaths,but a combination of the 3.Arctic Service is hard.The Story Continues.The Franklin Expedition Crews were exhausted/ tired, and lead poisoning along with scurvy, made them not think properly.

[@oksAjax]

to say this video. is outdated is a understatement

[@runlarryrun77]

In the sense that we now know the wreck sites of both the Erebus & the Terror, yes I suppose it's "outdated" as you put it. However it's very interesting to review as specific point in the search process before the wrecks were located.

[@MonTube2006]

Too many people are short sighted

[@chiphailstone589]

Franklin may have learned the hard way, but if all the officers died with in two days of each other , then food poisoning got them. The Admiralty's attitude may have been slight tward the Natives, but the men on the ships themselfs had respect and often admiration. There were 4 ships awaiting Frankilin in the Alaskan Arctic for 3 years straight.

[@jackharrison6771]

The British Admiralty's attitude towards the Inuit was a serious barrier to the survival of the Franklin Expedition. To consider them as mere "savages" was and is the greatest sign of ignorance of the Arctic conditions. Let's just remember one point.. The Inuit have been surviving and thriving in the Arctic for thousands of years. But many white explorers get in difficulties within weeks/months; as soon as winter hits them, The same happened in the American East coast. The first settlers depended on the Native Americans to get them through the first year. They repaid them with horrendous white diseases.

[@210359]

+Jack Harrison Absolutely. Arrogance was the root cause of failure of the Franklin Expedition.

[@nickpaulie]

+Rajeev Yadav You read what happened with the other expedition from which Franklin was know as "'the man who ate his own boots"'? Franklin was not the leader for polar expeditons.

[@jackharrison6771]

+Nick Baizel Agreed. he was also too old. And pulling too much in those lifeboats finished them - as it did with Scott on his man-hauled sledges. The un-necessary weight, the conditions PLUS poor health.

[@nickpaulie]

Well in fact sometime the age means nothing. I seen tourist before years-he was at 80 years but he looked at 60. And he walked as godd as me-and I am mountain ranger. Franklin forgotten much easy that that place is NORTH not like walking in park. And also from britain fleet expected that expediton will pass threw the north pass in one season(!!!!) and will reach Hawaii(!!!!)-that's the truth!!!! Stupid and arogance. Sorry that too many sailoras paid with their lifes for that... R.I.P

[@jackharrison6771]

+Nick Baizel Yes Nick it was a shame so many sailors lost their lives. but the issue of age was important. On Shackleton's Antarctic Expeditions, He did not want those who were to old or to young. This was seen in his attitude towards the young stowaway on his 1914 trip. He was more annoyed about his age, then the fact he sneaked aboard. The very young and the very old have no place in those areas. Especially when rescue was NOT possible.

[@ItsJakeStuff]

I'd have a problem calling any vehicle 'the Urn', especially a boat!!

[@harryzhang4660]

Why do these documentaries make picking up 160 years old artifacts seem easy as picking berries? Or are they just really untouched until now?

[@ronclark9724]

Useful items for the Inuits were picked up earlier, other items not considered useful by the Inuits were left behind... Treasure is in the eyes of the beholder...

[@runlarryrun77]

If you look in the right places the stuff is still there even after all this time. Hardly anybody goes there & as contradictory as it may sound the harsh environment can preserve some materials.

[@Bill23799]

Very interesting mini-doc film. Did I miss the part where he mentioned that the HMS Bomb Vessel Terror also was one of the ships that lobbed mortars up and into Fort McHenry during the war of 1812? You know how the song goes......and the rockets red glare......the bombs bursting in air. Mortar ships fired large caliber hollow shells filled with explosives that could be set with fuze to blow up in the air over your target. It's ok if he forgot to mention it.....really. To our friends to the north we have gotten past all that. Oh......and sorry for trying to invade Canada and burning your government buildfings. Our bad.

[@Medusaesque]

+Bill23799 Sorry for burning down your White House on Aug. 24, 1814. cheers, Canada :)

[@Bill23799]

That's OK. Sorry about trying to invade your country. Oh, and sorry about all the hippie draft dodgers too. Thanks for the Maple Syrup and Red Green.

[@jimmeshtick8908]

Medusaesque Take Justin Bieber back! please....😞

[@bellelise.]

Haha!

[@mortyjansen399]

How do you then feel about burning down an entire capital, more of less. And being credited with the first terror attack on civilians? We still have some Canon balls loggede in surviving houses here from that visit from the brits. :)

[@elsakristina2689]

Is that Robert Stack narrating?

[@c.s.7266]

Yes! :)

[@johnrock241]

no its stacy keach

[@elsakristina2689]

​@@johnrock241 Now that I watch this again it does sound like him actually.

[@jsEMCsquared]

Stop with the spike in the coffin in the end it's too loud!

[@MARIEKAYALI2]

they turned in to cannibals didn't they ?

[@hurchgoer]

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[@Del-Canada]

If Franklin had smaller, lighter ships and less men he may have succeeded.

[@jackharrison6771]

Just like Amundsen did.

[@hrunchtayt1587]

The ice would have crushed anything smaller than a bombvessel. Back than Erebus and terror were surplus from the napoleonic wars.

[@Del-Canada]

@@hrunchtayt1587 And they got crushed anyway. Lighter ships may have been pushed up and they would have had a higher draft so less of the ship would actually be below the waterline.

[@runlarryrun77]

You may well be right, but that was not the Victorian Royal Naval mindset. In essence they went to defeat the Northwest Passage, not to slip quietly through it.

[@Del-Canada]

@@runlarryrun77 Unfortunately it was that mindset that defeated the Royal Navy, and not the passage.

[@johnandrews3547]

the crew was attacked and killed by the inuit who cut them up and stored them for next winter I read this in a book at the library. it was written by an eskimo named Richard verydamncold

[@danielflanard8274]

You sure about that?

[@all_the_bad_news5614]

Sounds legit

[@runlarryrun77]

I'ma add that to the list of things that never happened.

[@leroyhovatter7051]

It's true. His accomplice was One who's pee pee has first bite