Engraving showing the yacht 'Fox' wintering in the ice pack, 1859. The 'Fox', commanded by Captain F.L. McClintock, went to the Arctic region in search of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated Arctic expedition of 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 from view late in 1845 and none of the men were ever seen
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