Sir John Franklin search sailing vessel found

9:38 PM Fri 30 Jul 2010 GMT

'HMS Enterprise and HMS Investigator (right) in 1848 in the ice' .

A sailing ship, the HMS Investigator, lost while searching for missing explorer Sir John Franklin in the Arctic 150 years ago has been found by Canadian archaeologists, 'standing upright in very good condition,' and with it, the bodies of three sailors who are thought to have died of scurvy. Its Captain, Robert McClure is credited as being the first European to discover the western entrance of the North West Passage. The Investigator was one of many American and British ships sent out to search for the HMS Erebus and the Terror, vessels commanded by Franklin in his ill-fated search for ...

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