HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, with 134 men aboard, left Greenhithe, Kent, in England, beginning the disastrous Franklin expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All hands are lost. May 20, 1845.
Image: Engraving of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror departing for the Arctic in 1845. (Public Domain)
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