Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin KCH FRS FLS FRGS (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator.
Sir John Franklin, English rear admiral and explorer who led an ill-fated expedition (1845) in search of the Northwest Passage, a Canadian Arctic waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. His ships the Terror and the Erebus were discovered by Canadian expeditions in the 21st century.
But the family and friends of the 129 officers and crew members—particularly Jane Franklin, wife of the expedition’s commander, John Franklin —refused to abandon hope that their loved ones...
A celebrated British naval officer and explorer, Sir John Franklin led a doomed voyage to find the Northwest Passage aboard the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus in 1845.
Amid this backdrop of daring exploration, an aging naval hero named Sir John Franklin proposed to lead one more expedition into the unknown. The goal: to map the last unnavigated section of the Northwest Passage.
John Franklin (later known as Sir John Franklin) was born on , in Spilsby, England. He grew up in a large family, and was the ninth child of 12 born to Willingham Franklin and his wife Hannah.
English Explorer and Naval Officer. F amed arctic explorer John Franklin was born in Spilsby, Lincolnshire. Following elementary and grammar school education, he went to sea over his father's objections.
Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator. After serving in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, he led two expeditions into the Canadian Arctic and through the islands of the Arctic Archipelago, during the Coppermine expedition of 1819 and the Mackenzie River expedition of 1825 ...