Canada: Shipwreck in Arctic Identified

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/world/americas/canada-shipwreck-in-arctic-identified.html

Version 0 of 1.

The wreck of a ship discovered last month after being trapped in Arctic ice in the 1840s has been identified as the H.M.S. Erebus. It was the ship of the captain, Sir John Franklin, who led 129 men on it and H.M.S. Terror in a voyage to chart the Northwest Passage. Despite 32 rescue missions from England, he and his crew all died. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who made a hunt for the ships a priority, announced the finding on Wednesday in the House of Commons. The confirmation was based on divers’ measurements, sonar images and underwater photographs by Parks Canada, the agency that has led six searches for the ships.