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- He served under Francis Crozier as Third Lieutenant on the ship HMS Terror during the 1845 Franklin Expedition which sought to discover and chart as-yet unexplored parts of the Canadian Arctic, including the Northwest Passage, and make scientific observations.
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John Irving was a lieutenant on HMS Terror during the Franklin expedition. John Irving Jr. was born on February 8th, 1815 on Princes Street, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was baptised on April 5th of the same year. He was the fourth son of John Irving Sr. and Agnes Clerk Hay.
He served under Francis Crozier as Third Lieutenant on the ship HMS Terror during the 1845 Franklin Expedition which sought to discover and chart as-yet unexplored parts of the Canadian Arctic, including the Northwest Passage, and make scientific observations.
The British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition, also known as Franklin's lost expedition, was an attempt by the British Royal Navy to discover and chart the Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic in 1845, under the command of Sir John Franklin and using the ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror.
NameRankOriginAge (as Of 1845)593135Second Lieutenant31Dec 4, 2022 · The British Admiralty – the administrative arm of the Royal Navy – appointed Sir John Franklin to lead the 1845 Arctic expedition. Franklin, a career naval officer, had not been to the Arctic for almost 20 years.
John Irving (8 February 1815 – c. 1848) was a Scottish officer in the Royal Navy and polar explorer. He served under Francis Crozier as Third Lieutenant on the ship HMS Terror during the 1845 Franklin Expedition which sought to discover and chart as-of-yet unexplored parts of the Canadian...
Mar 30, 2021 · The real John Irving was born on Princes Street, Edinburgh in 1815. He joined the Navy in 1828 and climbed the ranks, despite having to return to Scotland after various failed ventures. The Franklin Expedition presented a good opportunity for him to get things back on track.
John Irving (1815–1847?) was a lieutenant on board H.M.S. Terror during Sir John Franklin's fateful expedition, and had the melancholy distinction of being the first identifiable body to be found by a subsequent search party - that of the US officer Frederick Schwatka - in 1878.
