Franklin's Lost Expedition, 1847

Franklin's Lost Expedition, Was the name given too the failed expedition through the northwest passage led by John Franklin, Franxcis Croxzier and James Fitzjames In 1846 During the expeditions voyage they where iced in, in the king Williams land area, they lived off what few rations they had left inside the ships for over a year waiting for the ice to melt but it did not. It was later found that their rations where made using lead tins In 1848 the men (Now led By Franxcis Croxzier, Since John Franklin had died) abandoned their two ships, the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror, they attempted to walk 800 miles south into mainland Canada Based on information from local Inuits all the men Starved to death, and some resorted to Cannibalism. In 1850 Some Inuit hunters spotted 40 of the men making their way south from kingwilliamsland. The last members of the crew where seen by Inuits at some point between 1852 to 1858 in baker lake, It is believed that Franxcis Croxzier was last to die