Franklin Expeditions and Victoria Strait Expedition

Victoria Strait Expedition: The Royal Navy ships, on a mission to discover the Northwest Passage, were abandoned in the ice by the starving survivors of the expedition in 1848, according to The Toronto Star, Canada. This week, 166 years later, the crews of the 2014 Victoria Strait Expedition , an armada of four Arctic vessels, will set out on a tightly planned six-week mission to find the two ships before the ice closes again over the open waters and Somewhere in the Canadian Arctic the remains of the 1845 Franklin Expeditions iron-plated warships, Erebus and Terror, lie in their wintry, watery graves. They ve never been seen since. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.