Sea captain. Looking for a trade route, the North-East Passage, a 3 ship expedition set sail, from Harwich, with Willoughby in charge and captain of the 'Bona Esperanza'. The Esperanza and the 'Bona Confidentia' were separated from the third ship, the 'Edward Bonaventure' captained by Stephen Borough and carrying the chief pilot, Richard Chancellor. The two lost ships got no further than an area near Murmansk where the bodies were found by Russian fishermen many months later. The precise cause of their demise is not known.
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Sir Hugh Willoughby
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Alexander Berry
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
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Edmund Hoar
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
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Robert Hunt
Vicar. Born circa 1568. He was chaplain to the Jamestown Settlement.
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John Sullivan
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
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John McDouall Stuart
Australian explorer. Born Scotland. Trained as a civil engineer and aged 23 emigrated to Australia where 1858 - 62 he made 6 expeditions into the interior searching out new pastures and surveying ...
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