Please, please, please recover documents from Crozier's desk! They recovered sealing wax with someone's thumbprint still on it along with a brush with human hair still in it. If these were preserved than bound papers, charts, maps, logbooks, etc should be preserved also. Perhaps there's a record of what happened to the sailors buried on Beechey Island-perhaps Crozier's own personal letters and thoughts. Crozier was always a hero in my eyes as he made captain not by buying a commission, but rather years of hard work and probably putting up with lots of snubbing from upper echelon officers that derided him for being from the lower classes and Irish at that. (The main reason he wasn't given command.) Being what the US Navy calls a 'mustang' (someone that was enlisted but rose through the ranks to finally getting commissioned) I bet Crozier was a formidable, demanding captain but also shared a bond with his sailors that knew he used to be one of them. Who knows what he might have achieved with a command.
@@TheBigMclargehuge parks canada thinks there is documents in the desk and say it may still be legible. But what do they know they only do it for a living they should have just asked you and saved themselves the time.
The crew took along quite a bit of useless junk when they started the hopeless overland trek south. Surely Crozier would not have left the logbooks aboard ships he knew to be doomed. Buried somewhere? Lost along the trail? But surely not left aboard.
I might be wrong, but whilst ‘commisions’ were formerly bought in the British army, I am not at all sure that was ever the case in the navy (sailing a ship was such a hugely technical undertaking that it was probably never entrusted to anyone without the appropriate training!).
@@charlesfaure1189 i think theres a good chance they would leave the log books on the boat. There would have been sailors who stayed on the boat in the event that the ice melts while everyone had trekked off so they could sail it back to England. That would have been normal for British protocol.
I only recently read about the Franklin expedition, but I have been reading and looking up everything I can about it, so this is a really cool treat. Thanks for posting it!
So long as it's under a million years there might be something. Anything past that and it's pretty much ground to dust or covered up under layers of rock we cannot yet reach
I just read the article about this find today. I was curious so I ventured over to the Tube and found more exciting information through video. This goes to show you that things in the past were built and made to last and withstand the test of time. Amazing find and artifacts.
Amazing the cabins and furniture are still in good condition after 170 years..bottles and plates still on the shelves......it is as if you could pull up a chair and sit down and open a few drawers on those desks.....
As macabre as the fate of HMS terror was, it would be fascinating to raise and restore her as a museum to the quest of human endeavor. Also, perhaps have a look at a tin can or two.
No the Terror and the Erabus should be left where they are, what the franklin experdtion was trying to was amazing but fate was against them from the start. Leave the dead to rest in peace.
@@melina001a the ice floes will destroy them eventually so they should be raised. The Erebus has already been damaged by ice which ripped much of its top deck off. They're not that deep and not out of reach of heavy ice.
What a great wreck to dive! Only ones I’ve ever been to look like a trip down the damage isle at Home Depot, rotting logs and sticks that semi resemble a boat, great job and good photography 😎👌
i think they took most of the books out of the ship and carried them with them burning them as they went along. if im not mistaken they dragged a few hundred lbs worth of books with them for a while.
Is it too much to hope that the ship's log is in Crozier's desk? Probably he would've taken that with him on the march, but GOD what if... Hopefully we will find at least one journal, or diary or logbook. Surely Crozier left a note similar to the one in the cairn, and if it's anywhere to be found it'll be in that desk. GOD I'm so excited.
I would think, in view of all the useless crap found on the overland route the crew took after leaving the ships, that Crozier would have taken the logs along on the trek. He knew the ships were not going to survive, so preserving the logs would have been a priority.
Seems that since it's shallow enought for a scuba tank dive, it would be possible to raise it. I'd contribute to that project, and sure other people would too.
I've always been interested in the Franklin expedition⛵⛵🌊 how sad how all the men perished and how awesome that a ship has been found I wish I was there to see history in person
@pc 1000 Now that I have my wits together I can add that the logs have been found ! By locals, they gave the logbooks to the children, who scattered the pages while playing with those.
@pc 1000 Inuit oral history is the best in that case ! I remember reading about Dickens clearly dismissint inuit accounts saying "our gallant men would never do this blablabla" haha
Edna Perhach that annoying sound is a rebreather for oxygen he couldn't hold his breath for four minutes and sixteen seconds to enhance the video quality.
So sad...If the descovered them,i hope they reveal the identity of Jack the ripper,this was one of the most peacefull gravesites ever;but then,there's no peace in life and death
Recently just learned of how the captain colonised Tasmania, I was almost happy to find out his fate after knowing what his soldiers did to the people there, he was a monster.
'bowls and plates' are artifacts lol. Good thing they don't have you there helping with the exhibition - you'd probably complain about there being no WiFi and being cold all the time
