![]() Terror Endless night is developed by UNSEEN SILENCE and is set for release by Feardemic in Q1 2023. Perhaps the only thing that can save you is TERROR. Will you be able to keep your mind awake when all your senses are screaming with fear? The ship's crew unfolding insanity opens the door to events straight out of a horror movie. Cavernous darkness, a claustrophobic ship and hellish cold combined are a straight path leading to the verge of a mental breakdown. ![]() At -40 degrees cold, even the sun gave up, sacrificing the world to the darkness of the polar night for several months.īurdened with responsibility for even more lives, not just your son's anymore, but every member of your crew, you will have to take care of your sailors, providing shelter, food, justice and survival. On May 10th 1845, he married Mary Ann Windus, just ten days before he left England aboard the Erebus. He was picked on the recommendation of Fitzjames, based on their shared experience in China. On September 9, 1848, largely due to your decisions, the ship was trapped in the ice between Prince of Wales Island and Bathurst Island. In the spring of 1845, Stanley signed up for the Franklin expedition as the surgeon aboard HMS Erebus. The journey went smoothly until you sailed between the Queen Elizabeth Islands. The ship was carried not only by the waves, but also by your crew's unawareness of your family connections and their captain's true intentions, as you had officially undertaken the expedition for a reward set by the Admiralty. ![]() Making use of your connections, you succeeded in obtaining command, and on June 12, 1848, set out to explore. thereby condemning him to death! John Franklin's expedition that carried HMS "Erebus" and HMS "Terror" into the clutches of the Arctic cold was lost without news.Īfter two years of waiting for news of Franklin's expedition, when arrangements to find the "Erebus" and "Terror" were finally announced, plunged into despair at the loss of your son and carried by remorse, you volunteered as ready to lead one of the expeditions. However, you decided to resign so that your son could take part in the expedition, gather experience at sea and gain recognition in the eyes of the Admiralty. Timeline of the Franklin expedition and the search for its ships May 19, 1845: Two Royal Navy ships, the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, depart Greenhithe, England in search of the Northwest Passage. You were chosen to lead an expedition prepared by the Royal Navy, which would sail under the North Pole and reach East Asia. They were offering you fame, prestige and a place in history. The year 1845 was supposed to be a breakthrough. ![]() The former, apparently the remains of Lieutenant John Irving, were taken home to Edinburgh – although some scholars wonder if this correct, or whether they might be the bones of a more senior member of the crew.Įach year, the work of Parks Canada’s Underwater Archaeology team, in collaboration with Inuit, reveals something new about the expedition and the men who lived on Erebus and Terror.The nightmare you'll experience in Terror is based on a true story. By 2014, the mission had its first big success, when Erebus was discovered in the shallow waters of the eastern Queen Maud Gulf. The latter, once thought to be Lieutenant Henry Le Vesconte, have more recently been identified as the remains of assistant surgeon Harry Goodsir. To date, only two sets of human remains have returned to Britain – one to Edinburgh, one across the road from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, housed in the expedition memorial in the Old Royal Naval College’s Chapel. This year’s excavations offers traces of absent bodies – a fingerprint in sealing wax (Hoar’s perhaps?), hairs on a brush from which DNA may be extracted. A diver recovers a decanter from the wreck of HMS Erebus (© Parks Canada)Īnd yet, the finds also remind us about what is lost and may never be found – the bodies of the men themselves.Īlthough human remains have been found on King William Island – and may yet be found on the ships – the chances of knowing who they were remain slim, despite advances in DNA technology.
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