What was Sir John Franklin searching for when he died?
John Franklin John Franklin Rear Admiral Sir John Franklin (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer of the Arctic. Franklin also served as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land from 1837 to 1843. He disappeared on his last expedition, attempting to chart and navigate a section of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. The icebound ships were abandoned and the entire crew died of starvation, hypothermia, tuberculosis, lead poisoning, and scurvy. Franklin was born in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, on , the ninth of twelve children born to Hannah Weekes and Willingham Franklin. His father was
CCGS Sir John Franklin (2017) CCGS Sir John Franklin (2017) CCGS "Sir John Franklin" is an offshore fisheries research ship of the Canadian Coast Guard. The ship was ordered in 2011 as part of the Canadian National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy (NSPS) as a replacement for aging Canadian Coast Guard vessels. The ship was launched on 8 December 2017, named for Sir John Franklin, an Arctic explorer whose final expedition ended with the death of all his men in 1848. "Sir John Franklin" is the first of three vessels ordered on 19 October 2011 by the Canadian government under the NSPS for offshore fisheries research. The