The View from Shore | Findings from the 1845 Franklin Expedition 

I've been soaking up all of the RU-vid Franklin videos. This one is a great update and relatively recent. Thank you! Looking forward to more.

Been following this subject for decades.... Great presentation

Fantastic video. Public libraries are such a valuable service to people.

What ruined their chances was going down the western side of Prince William Island ( erroneously thinking it was a peninsular joined at eastern side) because this doomed them to the McClintock Channel Ice flow that not only beset the ships but cracked even the Iron cased hulls causing them to founder in 1848 and stranding the entiring surviving expedition. The massive flow of Ice down the McClintock channel flowed South East and even today is a problem especially in bad years. Had they tried going behind the Island they would of discovered the passage AND made it to the Pacific!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="900">15:00</a> my interpretation of what happened at this site is that the remains are inuit, and the inuit discovered the cairn that had been put over them by people who thought they were from the Franklin expedition. I can speculate that the inuit found this offensive and dismantled the cairn and removed the remains to be placed somewhere else where the bones would not be disturbed again.

When the men left the ships in April,1848, they headed south. It was croziers and Fitzsimmons decision to make it to the Back Fish River by walking out. They were dragging the boats on sleds and some provisions. It was very hard for the crews. They wore wool clothing. Malnutrition had set in . Their gums were bleeding. Cannabilism had occurred. They sweated a lot dragging the boats. The elements of the weather was difficult. The men died on their way south. As they became weak and tired, they succumbed to their deaths. Just a terrible expedition that went bad.

This is a terrific summary, Dr Stenton! One very tiny caveat: Can we really call Crozier's short postscript to the Victory Point Note ("And start on tomorrow 26th for Backs Fish River") a blueprint for Crozier's escape plan? The postscript gives no reason *why* they were going to Back's River, what they would do there, or where they might go afterward, after all. Might we consider David Woodman's theory that, a trip to any HBC outpost being far too arduous to be remotely within the Franklin men's capability, that the Back's River journey was only intended as an extended hunting trip, to obtain fresh game to address scurvy - and buy another year, perhaps, for some rescue effort to find them?

fantastic thing. Thank you for that video

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="900">15:00</a> - 50 years later the bones had been removed...... Nothign else said about this.... ?????? Who took them? Why? Why was this just ignored by the uploader??? These may have been bones from the men and they were removed, so ......?????????

Franklin was just not up to it and the men knowing this mutinied at some point, hence the high officer casualties compared to other ratings. Obviously, they formed into two groups.

are you touching it?

Why ya gotta blow off thanking the Inuit?

We know now that there was an American Werewolf in London that was hired as a shipman aboard the HMS Terror 🎉in 1845. We also know that this Yankee Werewolf killed many aboard the HMS Terror all except for John Torrington & the other two men buried on Beachy Island in 1846. In 1980 their excavated corpses perfectly preserved in the permafrost showed high levels of cortisol & adrenaline which likely caused their premature deaths from fright! having likely witnessed the terrifying and savage transformation of this Yankee Werewolf during the first Full Moon of their journey into the Arctic! This yank delegate Lycanthrope brutally ripped apart & murdered all of Franklins Men whilst they were frozen with fright locked in the icy grip of this Savage White Landscape! None survived the horrifying ordeal though some did escape making a valiant attempt to put distance between themselves & those they witnessed being ripped apart by the supernatural powers of the American Werewolf in the Arctic!! The HMS Terror Ship Bell has Lycanthropic Claw Marks upon it! A ring a ding dong!