Talk by Ian Cox
On May 19, 1845 Sir John Franklin. commanding H.M. ships Erebus and Terror, sailed from Greenhithe to seek a North-West Passage. On June 11. 1847 he died while still in the Arctic-presumably being buried beneath the ice off King William Land.
This evening, on the centenary of Franklin's death, Ian Cox-who himself has done exploration work in the Canadian Arctic-tells of the fate of the expedition and the part it played in leading to the discovery of the North-West Passage