Sailing ship searching Sir John Franklin ship in arctic 1850 - stock illustration

In 1850, the British Admiralty organized multiple search expeditions to locate Franklin and his crew. One of these expeditions was led by Captain William Kennedy aboard the Prince Albert. Although the specific details and outcomes of the Prince Albert's search for Franklin vary, like other search expeditions, it ultimately did not locate Franklin or his crew. Sir John Franklin's ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, became trapped in ice in the Arctic in 1846. The exact location where they became trapped was near King William Island in what is now Nunavut, Canada. ( 16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847 ) was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. After serving in wars against Napoleonic France and the United States, he led two expeditions into the Canadian Arctic and through the islands of the Arctic Archipelago, in 1819 and 1825, and served as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land from 1839 to 1843. Original edition from my own archives Source : Correo de Ultramar 1870