Franklin's lost expedition

I was going to say the lead solder sometimes.

And so if you want to read on the Franklin Expedition, there's some thoughts that the lead solder was part of that.

So another really interesting aspect if you want to read into it is, and then you see in the Civil War too, there were some people who were like, this is a great idea.

And then there were some guys who got horrible cans and were like, why is this happening? Yep.

The Search for Franklin.

Nearly two years had elapsed since the departure of the Franklin expedition in the Erebus and Terror, and as no tidings were received, the feeling became general throughout England that some disaster had befallen the gallant explorer and his men.

A council of naval officers of Arctic experience was held, and it was decided to make preparations for a relief expedition should no news arrive during the summer.

The season passed, but the ominous silence continued unbroken, and the suggestion of the council took definite shape.

On the twenty-first of August, the Investigator crossed the mouth of the great River Mackenzie, and in ten days reached Cape Bathurst.

The season was now drawing to a close, and instead of the usual continued daylight, three hours of every night were dark.

At intervals during this period, guns and rockets were fired to serve as signals to any parties of the Franklin expedition that might be in the neighborhood.

While at Cape Bathurst, McClure carried on communication with the Eskimos and tried to find out if they knew of the existence of land to the north, but without success.

Hi, I'm Ralph, and this is the Fictoplasm Podcast, where I talk about fiction and RPGs.

This episode, I'm tackling Dan Simmons' The Terror, which fictionalises the disastrous 1845 Franklin Expedition to find the Northwest Passage, and adds the suspense and horror of a supernatural predator.

Now the novel was published in 2007 and I think I started reading it maybe more than 10 years ago.

I had a physical copy.

Then in the winter of 1845-1846, you also get Goodsir's account of the winter.

Then there are two other significant events that happen before the ships become properly icebound.

In June 1946, there's the King William Land Expedition with Lieutenant Graham Gore leading.

And it involves encounters with Inuit and a terrible accident.

It may have been visited at some point by the Vikings during their voyages a thousand years ago but there is currently no evidence of that.

And you may remember from my episode on the Franklin Expedition that the Erebus and Terror went missing in the late 1840s and Americans, British and Danish ships went looking for them.

They never found them, but they did map huge areas of the Arctic, which is when Europeans first gazed upon Hans Island.

According to Denmark's claim, they reached Hans Island in 1853 on an expedition that included Hans Hendrik.

We see the same biological breakdown with the Donner Party in the 1840s, trapped in the Sierra Nevada.

And the Franklin Expedition in 1845.

Two ships trapped in the Arctic ice.

But the Franklin crew was suffering from severe lead poisoning from poorly soldered tin cans.

... to be eaten.

Then the Franklin Expedition of 1845, where they set off to map the Northwest Passage from Europe to Asia, and when the remains were found, fity bos- 30 bodies showed signs of cannibalistic feeding.

The Greely Expedition in 1881, they set sail from Newfoundland to mount an expedition to the far north.

Did you say New Finland?

I don't think it was a Donner Party.

I feel like it was, are the other ones that was a notable mention.

The Franklin Expedition.

May- no, Franklin Expedition is, is totally different.