Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07

ture Of the coast as might be of service
to Parry should he find a northwest
passage. Terrible hardships were encoun-
tered IN executing this mission.
In 1S45 Franklin was appointed to the
command Of the expedition, consisting of
the Erebus and the Terror. sent out by
the British admiralty in the search for
a northwest passage. He was last spoken
off the entrance to Lancaster sound on
July 26, 1S45. Thirty-nine relief expedi-
tions, private and public, were sent from
England and America between 1S47 and
1857 TO search for the missing explorer and
his party. In 1857 the yacht Fox, Cap
tain Leopold McClintock, was sent on a
foriorn hope by Lady Franklin. McClin-
took discovered traces Of the missing ex-
pedition, which had numbered 1888 men in
1853, which confirmed the previous rumors
of its total destruction. It was ascer-
talned that Franklin died on June II,
1S47, having in the previous year pene-
trated to within twelve miles Of the
northern extremity of King williams
Land.
Sir John Ross, 1919-1951
Disaster and desperate suffering beset
the efforts of Sir John Ross to penetrate
the Arctic regions He was a British ad-
miral and an Arctic explorer Of note He
commanded the expedition In search Of a
northwest passage in 1918 and again in
1S29-1S33 He headed a relief party which
again made search for Sir John Franklin
in 1S50-1S51,
Sir Robert. j. lie M. Mcclure, 1850
Born in Wexford. ireland. in 1907, Sir
Robert John lie Mesurier Mcclure,
British naval officer, commanded the first
expedition through the Northwest passage
from the Pacific to the Atlantic, 1S5O-1S54
The expedition, though 1t resulted in the
discovery of the Northwest passage, never
has been regarded as a success. 1t is held
that as it was sent out to take part in
the Franklin search and not to add to the
worlds store of geographical knowledge.
Mcclure probably would have accom-
plished a great deal more had he not been
so possessed of a desire to complete the
passage himself
Sir Francis McClintock, 1851-1959
In 1851 Sir Francis Leopold McClintock
made sledge journey of about seven
hundred and sixty miles along the north
shore of Parry sound. He took part, as
has been stated, in the Franklin relief
expedition, commanding the final search
ing party in 1s57-1S59
Elisha Kent Kane, 185o-1s55
Generally speaking, American explora-
tion in the Arctic divides itself readily
into three parts: The expedition. 1S51-1S55,
incident to the search for Sir John Frank
lin; those promoted by the United States
government, 1S70-1S72 and 1SSl-1SS4, and
those projected financed and led by Rob
ert e. Peary, U. S. N. The first Ameri-
can ships to participate in the Franklin
search were the Advance and the Rescue,
in command of Lieutenant De Haven,
which left New York May "a, 1850, and
returned late the same year without It'd
ings of the lost explorer.
On May SO 1858, Henry Grinnell, New
York merchant who had given literally to
the work, equipped the brig Advance and
dispatched her to the north in command
OF Elisha Kent Kane, U. S. N, who had
accompanied the De Haven expedition.
The Advance wintered in Rensselaer, har-
Dor, on the west coast of Greenland, rs
degrees 81 minutes north, but, panble to
free herself from the ice was detained
second winter, during which the party
retreated about half way to Cape York,
where they were obliged to turn back,
DR.. Kane found no trace Of Franklin,
but his explorations by sledge were ex-
tensive and the scientific results of the
expedition most valuable.
William Morton, leading one of the
sledge parties reported that at Cape Con-
stitution, latitude 50 degrees q minutes
north, on June 21, 1854, he had seen the
open Polar sea. and upon this statement
much subsequent discussion was predl-
Gated.
Charles Francis Hall, 1960-1871
Charles Francis Hall, born in Rochester.
n. H., in 1921. became interested in the
fate of Franklin Fitting out an expedi-
tion by private subscription, he left New
London on May 20, 1860, and domesticated
himself with the Eskimos, their rowing