Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Ed. Laurence
Commemorated ati
John Franklin statue
{On the front of the plinth:} To the great arctic navigator and his brave co...
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Sir Ernest Shackleton
Born Kilkee, county Clare, Ireland. He led several Antarctic expeditions and located the South magnetic pole during his voyage of 1907-1909. Died of a heart attach on a voyage to the South Atlantic...
Robert Hunt
Vicar. Born circa 1568. He was chaplain to the Jamestown Settlement.
Bartolomeu Dias
Portuguese nobleman who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa, in 1488, the first European known to do so since ancient times.
George Chambers
Role on the lost expedition: Boy on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Christopher Columbus
Explorer. Born in the Republic of Genoa (his birth date is approximate). From 1492 to 1504, he made four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean under the auspices of the monarchs of Spain. These voyages...
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