'Pool ship after 168 years 'as new' found'

'Pool ship after 168 years 'as new' found'

World September 19, 2016 22:15

- "The British ship HMS Terror was found in perfect condition after 168 years in Arctic Bay, north of Canada. The Terror did in 1848 participated in a polar expedition of the famous researcher Sir John Franklin when he disappeared in 1848."

"The 31 meter long Terror was a warship with Franklin's flagship HMS Erebus in heavy ice got stuck. In total 129 people on board perished. The ships were trying to find the so-called Northwest Passage, a route to the Atlantic and the Pacific would link up along Canada for shipping, report British and Canadian media."

"The British sought at that time eleven years almost continuously. The ice and water but had engulfed the Terror and Erebus. Generations of historians, archaeologists and adventurers went unsuccessfully looking for. The Arctic Research Foundation has succeeded at almost 100 kilometers from the place where it was thought that the ships were gone. Meanwhile, the first images of the Terror are laid down in the clear water.\n  \n    \n     \n      \n        1:30\n      \n     \"You are all racists'\n     \n     \n      \n        1:45\n      \n     Base jumper leaps death response\n     \n     \n      \n        3:57\n      \n     Rotten vs. vloggers \"limit is reached\""

"HMS Erebus was already found two years ago."

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