John Torrington

A momentary silence followed as the flag-swathed figure was lowered into the grave, and then a quick rattle of firearms as the last loop was paid echoed far and wide amongst the icebergs.

Twice more was that scene repeated before the ships cleared from the ice, and one of the first signs discovered by the searchers after Franklin were the three headstones raised on that lonely isle to the memory of W. Braine, John Hartwell, and John Torrington, who died while the ships were wintering in the cold season of 1845 to '6.

By July, the ice had broken up, and the voyage was resumed and passed without any exceptional incident up to the middle of September 1846, when they were again caught by the ice, but 150 miles nearer their destination than the year before.

Only 100 miles more to be sailed over, and they would be the conquerors, but that 100 miles was too firmly blocked with ice floes for them ever to sail over.

Twice more was that scene repeated before the ships cleared from the ice, and one of the first signs discovered by the searchers after Franklin were the three headstones raised on that lonely isle to the memory of W.

Brain, John Hartwell, and John Torrington, who died while the ships were wintering in the cold season of 1845 to 1846.

By July, the ice had broken up, and the voyage was resumed and passed without any exceptional incident up to the middle of September 1846, when they were again caught by the ice, but 150 miles nearer their destination than the year before.

Only 100 miles more to be sailed over, and they would be the conquerors.

A momentary silence followed as the flag-swathed figure was lowered into the grave, and then a quick rattle of firearms as the last loop was paid echoed far and wide amongst the icebergs.

Twice more was that scene repeated before the ships cleared from the ice, and one of the first signs discovered by the searchers after Franklin were the three headstones raised on that lonely isle to the memory of W. Braine, John Hartwell, and John Torrington, who died while the ships were wintering in the cold season of 1845 to '6.

By July, the ice had broken up, and the voyage was resumed and passed without any exceptional incident up to the middle of September 1846, when they were again caught by the ice, but 150 miles nearer their destination than the year before.

Only 100 miles more to be sailed over, and they would be the conquerors, but that 100 miles was too firmly blocked with ice floes for them ever to sail over.

Twice more was that scene repeated before the ships cleared from the ice, and one of the first signs discovered by the searchers after Franklin were the three headstones raised on that lonely isle to the memory of W.

Brain, John Hartwell, and John Torrington, who died while the ships were wintering in the cold season of 1845-6.

By July the ice had broken up, and the voyage was resumed and passed without any exceptional incident up to the middle of September 1846, when they were again caught by the ice, but 150 miles nearer their destination than the year before.

Only 100 miles more to be sailed over, and they would be the conquerors.

A momentary silence followed as the flag-swathed figure was lowered into the grave, and then a quick rattle of firearms as the last loop was paid echoed far and wide amongst the icebergs.

Twice more was that scene repeated before the ships cleared from the ice, and one of the first signs discovered by the searchers after Franklin were the three headstones raised on that lonely isle to the memory of W. Braine, John Hartwell, and John Torrington, who died while the ships were wintering in the cold season of 1845 to '6.

By July, the ice had broken up, and the voyage was resumed and passed without any exceptional incident up to the middle of September 1846, when they were again caught by the ice, but 150 miles nearer their destination than the year before.

Only 100 miles more to be sailed over, and they would be the conquerors.

Twice more was that scene repeated before the ships cleared from the ice, and one of the first signs discovered by the searchers after Franklin were the three headstones raised on that lonely isle to the memory of W.

Brain, John Hartwell, and John Torrington, who died while the ships were wintering in the cold season of eighteen forty-five to six.

By July, the ice had broken up, and the voyage was resumed and passed without any exceptional incident up to the middle of September eighteen forty-six, when they were again caught by the ice, but a hundred and fifty miles nearer their destination than the year before.

Only one hundred miles more to be sailed over, and they would be the conquerors.