Lady Franklin's lament for her husband.
[England : s.n.,
1852?]
Dated from internal evidence - Franklin set sail in 1845 and the ballad mentions that 'seven years are past' [since he last sailed] - "when no word of the expedition had been heard by 1847, the families and colleagues of the crew, and especially Lady Franklin, began to agitate for the Admiralty to begin a search. Between 1847 and 1859 some thirty expeditions were sent to discover the fate of Franklin, most sponsored by the Admiralty, but some by Lady Franklin herself". His fate was finally discovered in 1859 (he had died in 1847) by Leopold McClintock and William Hobson.
First line reads: You seamen bold, that have oft withstood.
In one column with an illustration above the title.
Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847
Ballads, English
Arctic regions