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19th Century HMS Investigator wreck foundlast update: Jul 29, 2010 01:19 PM From avarious articles: A team of Canadian archaeologists (Parks Canada) have located the British ship HMS Investigator which had been abandoned in the Arctic while on a 19th Century rescue mission. Sir John Franklin & Crew (Credit - Getty Images) Canada's government says the discovery in Mercy Bay bolsters its claim to sovereignty over the Northwest Passage, which is feared threatened by increased shipping. The British ship HMS Investigator, captained by Robert McClure, left Britain in 1848, to search for the Franklin expedition, lost with all its crew during a mission to discover the passage. The ship was eventually abandoned on the western side of the Canadian Arctic when it became trapped in pack ice. Canadian Minister of the Environment Jim Prentice told the BBC by telephone from Mercy Bay "It's an incredible site. You're looking at what people have not seen in 156 years, which is a remarkably intact British sailing vessel. You could make out all the planking on the deck, the details on the hull, all of the detail of the timber," Mr Prentice said. "It's sitting perfectly upright on the floor of the ocean." The Canadian researchers also found three graves of British sailors who died of scurvy on the 1853 expedition. Parks Canada, a government agency, will inventory and study the ship and other artefacts but will not remove them. It has been in touch with the British government regarding the sailors' remains. Read: BBC News, 28th July 2010 The Hindustan Times, 29th July 2010 |
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