On September 30, 2014, it was confirmed that the ship is HMS Erebus, the Hecla-class bomb vessel constructed in 1826, named after the dark region in Hades of Greek mythology called Erebus.

Michael Palin: traces HMS Erebus’s story from its construction in 1826 to its rediscovery in 2014. Sat Aug 03 2019 - 06:00. Erebus.

HMS Erebus took part in the Ross expedition of 1839-1843, and was abandoned in 1848 during the third Franklin expedition. The sunken wreck was discovered by the Canadian Victoria Strait Expedition ...

Yet John Evans, of the Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre, said that when she was launched in 1826, HMS Erebus was one of their most unremarkable.

Divers conducted 68 missions in September last year to the HMS Erebus, which is positioned just 11 metres below the surface compared to Terror’s 24 metres.

HMS Erebus took part in the Ross expedition of 1839-1843, and was abandoned in 1848 during the third Franklin expedition. The sunken wreck was discovered by the Canadian Victoria Strait Expedition ...

A recent scientific paper shed light on the gruesome ends for the expedition’s sailors, confirming that James Fitzjames, the captain of the HMS Erebus, was the first identified victim of ...

The Erebus' sister ship, the HMS Terror, remains missing. Fifteen artifacts have now been pulled from the wreck site, located in Queen Maud Gulf between Victoria Island and mainland Canada.

MARTIN: Two years ago, the wreck of the Erebus was discovered in the same area. So does this bring some kind of closure to this story, do you think? SIMMONS: In a way, it doesn't.

AMC’s “The Terror” tells the story of the Franklin Expedition, an 1840s attempt by the British Navy to find an Arctic passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The show tells a ...

It is in fact the HMS Erebus," he said in Parliament, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. The ship from the 19th century expedition was found in Nunavut — Canada's northernmost territory.

The Erebus was discovered in 2014, located in the Queen Maud Gulf south of Canada’s King William Island, a public-private partnership led by Parks Canada, country’s national parks service.