We're an Australian couple who took a chance and retired early. We purchased a boat in England, cruised it across the English Channel to France and now spend much of each year cruising around the rivers, canals and coastlines of Europe. In October when it gets too cold for us, we put the boat into hibernation somewhere and continue our travels. We spend much of our "off-season" travelling the world on luxury cruise ships giving speaking presentations about some of the great maritime adventurers and explorers. Follow our travels for these speaking presentations and tips on our travels.
I think that given the strange nature of the note and where it was left, along with what’s known about the extent of their lead poisoning, and that it would mean every man on board an already insane and cooped up ship would be more violent, less logical, and clearly something happened among the men that wasn’t purely starvation. There was cannibalism at some point, but beyond that it seems almost impossible there wasn’t mutiny or assault or some sort of doom during a wintering. The dynamic on Baird must have been skewed, Captain old head booteater was probably a bit of a dickhead as per usual as well especially given how his second in command was Irish and sorta more accomplished than him. Combine this with Francis likely being a torn apart man mentally feeling that he can never fully prove himself as a sailor, and hasn’t settled down with the love of his life… he probably went insane and led some violent ditch to just try and get out. They must have known they were going crazy. They must have realized something wasn’t right, they probably wanted to abandon the ships even if it meant dying. I seriously imagine that there had to have been a move in May, maybe even far earlier.
Crazy idea: The Boat skeletons and related others were results of an earlier expedition of 1847 and the deceased were part of the losses reported in the Victory Point Note update? Could also explain the desertion of the ships - Crozier's plan could have been a combination of "hunt in force" and creating supply caches, to be abandoned hastily after the ice thawed and Terror at least was re-manned?
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I've only just recently discovered the true extent of the power wielded by the VOC -- touched on briefly within Sapiens. Thanks for this university style lecture. Really expands my understanding on this truly fascinating corporate empire.
unbelivable, that eben Paelcart was punished - the man, who saved all the others and the man who saved the silver for the voc- what a greedy, disgusting organisation!
Appreciate this, but mostly for the visual content, to be frank. The perspective is one that’s dated very badly, outside of circles which aren’t either communist or Islamist in orientation. Not to mention the weird & appalling silliness & hypocrisy of an English - speaking white Australian, of all possible people, taking every opportunity to vilify & mock the VOC !
Well if fumes would have built up on the celeste.. to avoid the fumes it would make sense to get on the small boat and get behind the ship... and well they might still got intoxicated ^^and sth went wrong especially with no tolerance ^^
Lady Franklin is the villain of the story…. Typical rich white liberal who can’t just stay home, stay quiet, and stay happy. Ruined his career in Tasmania…. Then lobbies for him to take command when he is not qualified and almost died twice before all for more clout… then throws a fit when it goes horribly wrong… If she had not meddled with his career the disaster could have been avoided
Wait, I thought you put this sticky layer (well friction sticky not slimey sticky) under every carpet. Is it not? It's been under every carpet I've ever torn up
Our barge is registered in the Netherlands and we are happy to have that flag hanging from the stern of our 1927 barge. We have our Canadian flag flying from our small forward mast, along with our British Columbia provincial flag, and the combo always confuses people.
Of all the main characters involved in the Batavia story, the one that dissappeared to history was Lucretia Jans. I hope one day someone discovers what became of her after she returned to Amsterdam
36:40 Wasn't the idea that the uneaten chocolate was that the men were weary of it, as it was a new discovery from South America and they were suspicious of it?
@@fairlyvague82 Yes, quite, though the lead-poisoning-causing-death theory has been disproven, as basically all 19 Century Londoners/big city dwellers in the UK had exposure to high levels of lead. However, it is thought the lead would have contributed to their deaths, made them sicker, weaker, in more pain and misery. But yes, there was a ships boat found by Francis McClintock (leader of one of the later search expeditions, 1859-circa) with 40 pounds of chocolate uneaten, two skeletons in the boat, and one sitting upright with a shotgun in each hand ("the Boat Place No 1 (McClintock)").
The levels of lead in the bodies of the men found on Beechy island were markedly higher than any average citizen. The lead poisoning came from cans which were bought on the cheap from Eastern Europe
@@1knowndissident932 Why did you add the aggressive "get informed"? We were having a civil discussion on a completely non-politicised topic, but you just had to add vitriol into it? Please don't engage in civil discourses if you can't be civil. It's completely inappropriate and rude. In so far as I'm aware, and my research has found, chocolate was not _eaten_ since the mid 17th Century, but _drunk_ with sugar a-plenty added by especially the Brits, who had a notorious (still do) sweet tooth, plus milk. And I didn't even need to throw an insult at you to say that! Imagine!
The American chopper pilot did good holding the chopper as steady as he could in a raging gale, as did the winchman who tried to get down to the ship which was bucking like crazy.
The U Star captain goofed by refusing a tow when he was 8 miles offshore because his shipping company would have had to pay for it. Since then the rules have been changed to allow the coastguard to order a tow regardless of whether the captains want one or not.
33:26 huh? Wait. It wasn't just a random page from a random book... those were templates given to the command of any expedition to leave out in canisters. They should have had many of the exact same page to fill out. You can discern that by the fact that, in fact, Franklin was not the one who signed the note. Lt. Gore and Des Voeux did at the bottom of the notes, which isn't shown. And because the commander did not sign it, the printed line meant for a signature with the word: "commander" next to it have been crossed out... it was meant to be filled out like that. Also, what isn't shown in the extract (and I suppose it was for the effect of discovering Fitzjames' addition...) are the instructions to send back that note to British Admiralty upon discovery. Instructions written in 6 different languages. The goal of these notes was to leave out clues of where expedition ships had gone and where they were going 1) maybe for history keeping purposes 2) in case they needed rescue so that they could be found. The cairns were to be erected so that the notes would be easy to find and filled with chached provision in case the expedition, or their rescue, needed it. It was actually stranger that no such notes had been left at Beechey Island with the graves. I mean, yes, many of the things we've discovered about the expeditions last moment show that these men were in a weird headspace but the original Victory Point note was not one of them. I don't know, I find that having these kind of factoids about the crumbs they were supposed to leave (and didn't) is more interesting for its historical funfactness than making up that they were already so disturbed they apparently just took the page of any book?
More such notes may be on less obvious places probably. I mean the assumption is the march followed coast but... In any case Inuits may have destroyed them or the elements. Seems some notes may have been left in bottles that broke etc. (and that may be the expected vessel for notes further away from the ships)
Yes, that was an odd detour. If you read the printed text, it asks any discoverer to get the paper to the Admiralty and that there will be a reward for it. It was specifically meant to get information back to the British government.
Great talk by you. I have strongly suspected that there was a mutiny early on at some point, hence the death of Franklin & so many officers compared to crew. That the ship's diary & surgeon's log has never been found is even more evidence in my mind something nefarious happened. Will we ever know?
That was really cool. Poor Trim. And poor Baudin he was clearly a gentleman who deserves so much more recognition.... scumbag Peron... Brilliant stuff! ❤
What a fantastic presentation!!! Thomas Cochrane more than a hero as he took all that horrible loss and turned it to positive good. I've gone from chuckles to tears. No need to say why! That was one of the best presentations I've seen in a long time. Thank you 😅😮😢❤❤❤🇳🇿
Its the jews all through. The most jewy company in history. Everything done by the company was very jewy. From stovk exchange to false flags to trickery
