Lady Franklin Bay Expedition
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Oct 13, 2026
Greg LewinNARRATOR
From here he was able to command an extensive view, the land extending away as far as he could see into a cape which he named Britannia Cape.
Greg LewinNARRATOR
On June the thirteenth they arrived at Repulse Bay Depot, and the state of the health of the men is best shown by the record Lieutenant Beaumont left, and which was recovered by members of the Greely Expedition six years later.
Greg LewinNARRATOR
The record, dated June the thirteenth, eighteen seventy-six, reads Three of us have returned from the camp half a mile south to fetch the remainder of the provisions.
Greg LewinNARRATOR
Dobbing has failed altogether this morning.
Greg LewinNARRATOR
Two men cannot do it, so we will go as far as we can, and live as long as we can.
Greg LewinNARRATOR
God help us.
Greg LewinNARRATOR
L.A. Beaumont The discovery of this record, and the simple manly faith and courage it betokened, was destined to be of great service to another band of English-speaking explorers in later years, and their opinion of it, and the admiration they felt for the man who wrote it, will be told in the account of the Greely Expedition.
Greg LewinNARRATOR
Meanwhile that Lieutenant Beaumont was making his heroic efforts to save the men of his party, Lieutenant Rawson was growing anxious as to their position.
EmHOST
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.
EmHOST
The Greely Expedition in 1881, they set sail from Newfoundland to mount an expedition to the far north.
KatieHOST
Did you say New Finland?
EmHOST
New Finland.
KatieHOST
Go ahead.
KatieHOST
You can start over.
EmHOST
The Greely Expedition from 1881, which sailed from Newfoundland?
KatieHOST
Newfoundland.
Greg LewinNARRATOR
From here he was able to command an extensive view, the land extending away as far as he could see into a cape which he named Britannia Cape.
Greg LewinNARRATOR
On June the 13th they arrived at Repulse Bay Depot, and the state of the health of the men is best shown by the record Lieutenant Beaumont left, and which was recovered by members of the Greely Expedition six years later.
Greg LewinNARRATOR
The record, dated June the 13th, 1876, reads Three of us have returned from the camp half a mile south to fetch the remainder of the provisions.
Greg LewinNARRATOR
Dobbing has failed altogether this morning.
Greg LewinNARRATOR
Two men cannot do it, so we will go as far as we can, and live as long as we can.
Greg LewinNARRATOR
God help us.
Greg LewinNARRATOR
L.A. Beaumont The discovery of this record and the simple manly faith and courage it betokened was destined to be of great service to another band of English-speaking explorers in later years, and their opinion of it and the admiration they felt for the man who wrote it will be told in the account of the Greely Expedition.
Greg LewinNARRATOR
Meanwhile that Lieutenant Beaumont was making his heroic efforts to save the men of his party, Lieutenant Rawson was growing anxious as to their position.
Alex BellHOST
But, yeah.
Alex BellHOST
Let's start with the Greely Expedition, which was from 1881 to 1884.
Jack ChambersHOST
Mm-hmm.
Alex BellHOST
Um, 25 men went to the Canadian High Arctic as part of a scientific research, uh, program, and there was supposed to be a supply mission, uh, which failed.
Jack ChambersHOST
Which I don't think humans have.
Alex BellHOST
No, I don't think we do.
Jack ChambersHOST
They should've brought some snub-nosed monkeys on the Greely Expedition.
Alex BellHOST
Yeah, so you go, they've taken a leaf out of Paris' book.
Barry EadsNARRATOR
We did not all come back.
Barry EadsNARRATOR
Fifteen months after the Karluk, flagship of Vilhelm Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition, steamed out of the navy yard at Esquimalt, British Columbia, the United States revenue cutter Bear, that perennial Good Samaritan of the Arctic, which thirty years before had been one of the ships to rescue the survivors of the Greely Expedition from Cape Sabine, brought nine of us back again to Esquimalt.
Barry EadsNARRATOR
Nine white men out of the twenty, who, with two Eskimo men, an Eskimo woman and her two little girls, and a black cat, comprised the ship's company when she began her westward drift along the northern coast of Alaska on the twenty-third of September, 1913.
Barry EadsNARRATOR
Years of sealing in the waters about Newfoundland and of Arctic voyaging and ice travel with Perry had given me a variety of experience to fall back upon by way of comparison.
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Barry EadsNARRATOR
Russian ships have wireless can get in touch with them if already at sea.
Barry EadsNARRATOR
Bartlett, Captain.
Barry EadsNARRATOR
The Bear, as I have mentioned before, had been one of the ships to rescue the survivors of the Greely expedition 30 years before.
Barry EadsNARRATOR
I had never made a trip in her, but I knew what kind of ship she was.