Engraving showing an anchor, stuck in the mud of the Nore, which belonged to HMS 'Terror'. The 'Terror' was one of the ships lost during Sir John Franklin's ill-fated Arctic expedition of 1845. The anchor must have been lost in the water near the Nore prior to 1845. In 1845 the British Admiralty sent two polar exploration ships, HMS 'Erebus' and HMS 'Terror', to look for the Northwest passage round the northern coast of Canada. The expedition, commanded by Sir John Franklin, disappeared fr