Polar Exploration

Memorial: M5556

Cenotaph at Beechey Island, Nunavut, Canada commemorating Captain Sir John Franklin, Captain Francis Crozier, Commander James Fitzjames, RN and the officers and crew of HMS ‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror’ who died on the Northwest Passage expedition of 1845

Location

Cenotaph, Beechey Island, Nunavut, Canada, Rest of the World

Transcript

'TO THE MEMORY OF / FRANKLIN / CROZIER, FITZJAMES / AND / ALL THEIR GALLANT BROTHER / OFFICERS AND FAITHFUL COMPANIONS / WHO HAVE SUFFERED AND PERISHED / IN THE CAUSE OF SCIENCE AND / THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY / THIS TABLET / IS ERECTED NEAR THE SPOT WHERE / THEY PASSED THEIR FIRST ARCTIC / WINTER AND WHENCE THEY ISSUED FORTH TO CONQUER DIFFICULTIES OR / TO DIE / IT COMMEMORATES THE GRIEF OF THEIR / ADMIRING COUNTRYMEN AND FRIENDS, / AND THE ANGUISH, SUBDUED BY FAITH / OF HER, WHO HAS LOST IN THE HEROIC / LEADER OF THE EXPEDITION, THE MOST / DEVOTED AND AFFECTIONATE OF HUSBANDS / 'And so HE bringeth them unto the / Haven where they would be’ / 1855 / THIS STONE HAS BEEN ENTRUSTED TO / AND IS AFFIXED IN ITS PLACE BY THE / OFFICERS AND CREW; OF THE AMERICAN / EXPEDITION COMMANDED BY / LT. HARTSTENE IN SEARCH OF / DR KANE AND HIS COMPANIONS' [brass plate] 'This tablet having been left at Disco / by the American Expedition which was unable to reach Beechey Island in / 1855, was put on board Discovery / yacht FOX, and is now set up here / by Captain McClintock RN commanding / the final Expedition in search for / ascertaining the fate of Sir John / Franklin and his companions 1858'

Details

Description: Plain white marble slab with ogee edging.
Type: Plaque
Materials: Marble
Date Erected: 1858
Vessel: HMS Erebus, HMS Terror, SY Fox

Extra

Bibliography: McClintock's journal MCL/18 15 August 1858

JSON

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters