None of the men were ever found alive, and the expedition is considered one of the worst disasters in the history of polar exploration. These scant details were gleaned from a note the crew left in a cairn. By 1848, Franklin was dead and the surviving men abandoned their still-trapped ships. A year and a half later, their ships became trapped in ice near King William Island. In May 1845, Franklin and his 128 crew members set sail on HMS Erebus and HMS Terror from England on a quest to find the sea route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific through the Arctic Ocean. The final days of the Franklin Expedition have been shrouded in mystery for nearly two centuries. Parks Canada’s Underwater Archaeology Team The 2019 field season yielded such a huge haul of objects because it marked the first time the researchers could conduct a systematic excavation of the site.
"The preservation of the objects is quite phenomenal." "We have had the most successful season since the discovery of the wreck," Marc-André Bernier, manager of Parks Canada's underwater archeology team, told reporters in a press conference Friday. Among the objects brought to the surface were kitchen wares, wine bottles, a wax seal with a fingerprint, and a hairbrush with hair strands that could contain clues about the fate of Arctic explorer John Franklin and his crew. This week, the team unveiled more than 350 artifacts they recovered from just a small area of the wreck. The ship sank during the doomed Franklin Expedition of the 1840s, when British naval captain Sir John Franklin and his crew searched for the Northwest Passage. Braving water temperatures that dipped below freezing, divers spent nearly four weeks off the coast of Nunavut in northern Canada last summer exploring the HMS Erebus.
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