Franklin's Lost Expedition: The Icebound Mystery of the Northwest Passage

In 1845, Sir John Franklin led 129 men into the Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage. None came home.

Trapped in the ice aboard HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, the expedition vanished into one of history’s most haunting survival stories. Starvation, scurvy, freezing temperatures, and desperate choices turned the voyage into a nightmare.

For decades, the fate of Franklin’s men remained a mystery. What really happened out there in the frozen dark?

HistMuse explores the doomed expedition that became one of the greatest naval disasters ever recorded.