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HMS Terror: The Design, Fitting and Voyages of the Polar Discovery Ship by Matthew Betts Betts (author) is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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In the summer of 1845, Sir John Franklin and a crew of 134 men entered Lancaster Sound on board HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in search of a Northwest Passage. The sturdy former bomb ships were substantially strengthened and fitted with the latest technologies for polar service and, at the time, were the most advanced sailing vessels developed for Polar exploration. Both ships, but especially HMS Terror, had already proven their capabilities in the Arctic and Antarctic. With such sophisticated, rugg
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Matthew Betts Betts (author)
- Publisher
- Seaforth Publishing
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781526783141
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- World History, History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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