![]() ![]() The nine newly recovered artifacts, as well as any artifacts found in the future, will be jointly owned and managed by Parks Canada and the Inuit Heritage Trust. Those 65 objects are owned by the United Kingdom. The objects will then undergo conservation.ĭivers had previously recovered 65 artifacts from the HMS Erebus, including buttons, dinner plates, a boot, medicine bottles, the ship's bronze bell and part of the vessel's wheel. The nine artifacts are now at a laboratory in Ottawa, Canada, where they will undergo chemical analysis and sampling the archaeologists said they hope residues inside the pitcher, for instance, will reveal what the officer was drinking. The team also found a piece of tarred felt used for waterproofing the vessel, and the material still had the impressions of wooden planks. In addition to the pitcher and the artificial horizon, the divers found metal parts of rigging instruments. What is your theory about the Franklin Expedition? How do you think the ships sank? Let us know in the comments below.This is part of an artificial horizon that would have been used with a sextant to determine latitude when the horizon was obscured by obstacles like sea ice. PARKS CANADA’S UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY TEAM Drone image above the HMS Erebus shipwreck. Experts hope that after further exploration of the two ships, they’ll be able to understand how they sank, why they were 45 miles apart when they sank, and who was on board before the ships were abandoned. Nevertheless, Parks Canada’s manager, Marc-André Bernier stated that the archaeology team was more than happy to face the difficulties in order to learn more about the mysteries surrounding the lives of the missing sailors. Erebus In The Ice, in which the artist mistakenly equipped the barque-rigged Erebus with a square mizzen topsail. The cover of this one reproduces Musin’s 1846 painting H.M.S. This pencil case was discovered in a drawer, in built-in furniture in what is believed to be the Captain’s Steward’s pantry (storage room), on the lower deck. I have previously complained about the erroneous sail plan of the ship depicted on the cover of Michael Palin’s book, Erebus, and there’s a similar problem here. Although the cold temperature did a great job preserving artifacts, it placed extra stress on diving equipment as well as put the team at risk of hypothermia, strong currents, and volatile weather. However finding, exploring and collecting the artifacts came with its own set of challenges for the team of dedicated divers. PARKS CANADA’S UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY TEAMĭivers were able to pull out a lieutenant uniform’s epaulets, ceramic dishes, a hairbrush with human hair, a pencil set, a toothbrush, a shoe, a formal quill, silver spoon and sugar cube tongs, a bottle of mustard, an accordion, wine bottles and a wax seal with a fingerprint, among other things. A hairbrush discovered at the HMS Erebus shipwreck still had a few human hairs in the bristles. In August and September of 2019, for three weeks, divers from Parks Canada’s underwater archaeology team spent approximately 110 hours underwater to explore and pull out artifacts from the doomed HMS Erebus. Experts now had a chance to understand what life was like on the ships and, possibly, uncover secrets of the wreckage. (Underwater archeology team/Parks Canada)įranklin Expedition was long forgotten until 2014 when HMS Erebus was discovered followed by HMS Terror in 2016. Well, we’ll never know for sure, or will we? A decanter or eau de toilette bottle was found on the lower deck of Erebus in August 2019. However, some forensic evidence confirms that due to poor canned rations some of the crew members resorted to cannibalism to stay alive. ![]() According to previous studies the crew, who abandoned the ship and tried trekking overland to get help, all died from hypothermia, scurvy, and starvation. ![]() Sir John Franklin died in 1847 and a year later Crozier too passed away, leaving their crew frazzled and starved. (Underwater archeology team/Parks Canada) Sealing wax made of a mix of shellac and turpentine, with vermilion and chalk, was among the artifacts recovered last year from the Erebus wreck site. ![]()
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