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This pencil case was discovered in a drawer, in built-in furniture in what is believed to be the Captain’s steward’s pantry on the lower deck. But sometimes there’s pieces that you have to try and figure out,” Bernier said. Sometimes it’s easy when it’s a glass bottle that’s shining. “You’re basically going through somebody’s personal belongings from 170 years ago. Also discovered was a navigation tool and some clothing, Bernier said. One of the other cabins excavated by the divers belonged to one of the ship’s officers. But those are starting to give us portraits of some of the people that were on board,” Bernier said. Was it the individual who moved around or the object itself? We’re not sure. “So this object is a sign that things were moving around during the expedition. In the same area that Hoar’s lead stamp was found, the divers also recovered an “unidentified object, made of wood” that belonged to Frederick Hornby, who was originally on the HMS Terror when the expedition left Europe. Bernier said the stamp would have been used to stamp documents or items of clothing with Hoar’s name to identify them.

They also found a stamp made of three lead pieces with Hoar’s name on it. We found many plates, service wear, service plates, bowls, strainers.” This was not his cabin, but it was basically his storage area. “This gentleman was the captain’s assistant and he would set the table and cater to his needs. Hoar, from Portsea, England, was 23 years old when the expedition set sail. They worked on three of the ship’s cabin spaces, one of which was the pantry belonging to Edmund Hoar, Sir Franklin’s steward. This time around, the dive team focused on excavating from a specific area of the wreck. And when we can link objects to people who were on board,” Bernier said. “Some of the interesting and more significant elements are when they actually touch individuals. Epaulettes were part of the British Navy officer’s dress uniform, worn over the shoulders of a coat so the gold fringes hang downwards.īut in an interview with Nunatsiaq News, Marc-André Bernier, manager of Parks Canada’s underwater archeology team, gets most excited when he talks about the items that help paint a clearer picture of the men who were on board the ship. Today, Jonathan Wilkinson, the federal environment minister, Pamela Gross, president of Inuit Heritage Trust, and Stanley Anablak, president of the Kitikmeot Inuit Association, unveiled some of those artifacts at a ceremony at Parks Canada’s Conservation Laboratories in Ottawa.Īmong those items are epaulettes that may have belonged to Third Lieutenant James Walter Fairholme. 12, 2019, the team recovered over 350 new artifacts from the Erebus. The ships were locked in a destructive stranglehold at the foot of the iceberg until eventually Terror surged past the iceberg and Erebus broke free.After completing a total of 93 dives totalling 110 hours underwater from Aug. The impact floored the crew members while masts snapped and were torn away. The ships crashed violently together and their rigging became entangled. Terror couldn't clear both Erebus and the iceberg, so a collision was inevitable. The ice smashed against them so violently that their masts shook in a beating that would have destroyed any ordinary vessel.Įven more dangerously, in March 1842 the Erebus and Terror came close to destroying each other.Įrebus was suddenly forced to turn across Terror's pass in order to avoid crashing headlong into an iceberg which had just become visible through the snow.

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In one incident, they were caught in a stormy sea full of fragments of rock-hard ice. The ships sailed into the Antarctic – which was just as perilous as the north – for three successive years in 1841, 18. Together, they circumnavigated the continent and the expedition did much to map areas of Antarctica, the Ross Ice Shelf and set the scene for future polar exploration in that area. The ships were completely refitted with additional strengthening and an internal heating system. The Erebus joined the Terror for the next expedition – to the opposite end of the Earth, the Antarctic – under the command of James Clark Ross (1839–43).