![]() ![]() On July 26 the crews of two whaling ships spotted Erebus and Terror in Baffin Bay, west of Greenland. They even brought along a 2,400 volume library and a daguerreotype apparatus (though evidence suggests it was only ever used to take photos of the officers before the expedition launched). The crews were well-provisioned, with 36,487 pounds of biscuit, 136,656 pounds of flour and more than 97,000 pounds of beef, pork and tinned meat. For Franklin's search for the Northwest Passage, Erebus and Terror were outfitted with locomotive steam engines, which could enable speeds of up to 4.6 miles per hour. The two ships, both bomb vessels designed for mortar bombardments, had been field-tested in multiple expeditions. ![]() With Franklin (played in The Terror by Ciarán Hinds) captaining Erebus, Terror was put under the captaincy of Francis Crozier (played by Jared Harris), who had previously captained Terror on an Antarctic expedition.Ī portrait of John Franklin, expedition leader, next to his fictional counterpart in AMC's "The Terror," played by Ciarán Hinds. Franklin was already a famed explorer ( his expedition journals are available online), with three previous Arctic expeditions under his belt. The Franklin Expedition began with remarkable promise. So what's the true story behind the loss of the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror? But monster aside, The Terror has remarkable fidelity to the actual Franklin Expedition and it's equally grim fate. That's the plot of AMC's The Terror, which takes the true story of the Franklin Expedition as the jumping off point for a survivor horror tale, complete with a mythological Inuit monster. ![]() But after getting trapped in the ice, Franklin's men were stalked and killed by a gigantic monster that looks like a polar bear with an elongated neck. On May 19, 1845, Sir John Franklin and the 128 men under his command set forth from Greenhithe, just east of London on the River Thames, to find the long-sought Northwest Passage believed to link the North Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. ![]()
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