Sir John and 128 hand-picked officers and men had set out in 1845 to find the Northwest Passage, the long-sought shortcut to Asia that supposedly ran from the Atlantic to the Pacific by way of the ...

A more than 160-year-old Arctic mystery has come to resolution: The HMS Terror, a vessel from a doomed Royal Navy exploration to chart an unnavigated portion of the Northwest Passage, has been ...

The HMS Prince of Wales’ Multinational Voyage. As with the deployment four years ago, the Royal Navy’s CSG25 includes escorts from international allies.

These buttons from the 1850s were left during the search for the lost Franklin expedition. The buttons would guide survivors ...

British explorer John Franklin died in Canada's northern reaches in the 1840s, along with all of his crew. Only recently were his ships finally found. Now, they are a gift from the U.K. to Canada.

What's believed to be the wreck of HMS Terror, one of Sir John Franklin's two ships lost in the doomed 1845 Franklin Expedition, has been found in a Nunavut bay.

This oil painting by the Belgian marine artist François Etienne Musin (1820–1888) refers to HMS ‘Erebus’s’ Arctic venture under the command of Sir John Franklin in 1845.

Led by Captain Sir John Franklin, the voyage ended in tragedy three years later when both ships were lost in the frigid waters off Canada's coast. None of the 129 men on board the ships survived.

In the early 1980s, John McKay wanted to build a model of the HMS Victory, Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. But when he searched for architectural drawings ...