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Erebus & Terror Files: Fraser's Patent Firehearth and Coppers
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Erebus and Terror Files. This blog is intended as a very occasional series of rambling notes documenting my thoughts and original research relating to the 1845 Franklin Expedition. Monday, 30 March 2015. Fraser's Patent Firehearth and Coppers. Inspired by the recent post. On the building HMS Terror blog here are a few images to explain my current thinking about the galley stoves of Erebus and Terror. The various parts of the galley stove and its attachments. The best example I have found of a contemporar...
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Building HMS Terror: May 2015
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Scratch building a 1:48 scale model of HMS Terror. Sunday, 3 May 2015. LASER CUTTING TERROR’S BULKHEADS. I have arrived at the stage of my build where I am assembling the bulkheads that will give shape to the ship’s hull. I have already created bulkheads. For this model using the traditional method – gluing the plans to plywood and cutting them out using a scroll saw. The old bulkheads - cut using a scroll saw (prior to sanding). And this gave me an excuse for a whole new mini-project. The cutter works v...
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Building HMS Terror: Note on Copyright(s)
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Scratch building a 1:48 scale model of HMS Terror. Images attributed to George Back, James Clark Ross, and John Irving. Flickr images are used under a creative commons license and are attributed and linked. Images from the National Maritime Museum are embedded. Following their digital sharing protocols. Embedded text (and images) are courtesy of the Google Books embed feature. And are shared following the protocols described under " Copying digitized material from the Library's collections.
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Building HMS Terror: June 2014
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Scratch building a 1:48 scale model of HMS Terror. Sunday, 29 June 2014. HAPPY BIRTHDAY HMS TERROR - WHEREVER YOU ARE. Today marks the 201. Anniversary of the launch of HMS Terror in Topsham, Devon. It also marks the first anniversary of Building Terror. I research each part of the vessel in detail as I build, so construction of the model has proceeded slowly, but on pace. I have duplicated much of the blog in a topic on Model Ship World forums. 8221;, hosted at the Topsham Museum. I’ve had many re...
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Building HMS Terror: CANADA POST’S NEW EREBUS STAMP
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Scratch building a 1:48 scale model of HMS Terror. Wednesday, 22 July 2015. CANADA POST’S NEW EREBUS STAMP. Several months ago I mentioned on my blog that I was working on several side projects related to HMS Terror. Today, Canada Post unveiled a series of new stamps commemorating the Franklin Expedition and the 2014 discovery of HMS Erebus. The stamps include a permanent se-tenant. Issue and an international-rate stamp. The international-rate stamp showing the sonar image combined with. When I started c...
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STARS OVER ICE: October 2012
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As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness, to the end, to the end, they remain." - Laurence Binyon. Wednesday, October 17, 2012. David Woodman has very effectively captured the suffering that can transpire in extreme regions of the globe. His careful analyses of the Inuit testimony in Unravelling the Franklin Expedition. So, what does this have to do with mountaineering? Wilson was odd to begin with, but did the extreme conditions drive him to madness? Any conclusion is elusive. The Arctic...
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STARS OVER ICE: A Curious Parallel
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As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness, to the end, to the end, they remain." - Laurence Binyon. Wednesday, October 17, 2012. David Woodman has very effectively captured the suffering that can transpire in extreme regions of the globe. His careful analyses of the Inuit testimony in Unravelling the Franklin Expedition. So, what does this have to do with mountaineering? Wilson was odd to begin with, but did the extreme conditions drive him to madness? Any conclusion is elusive. The Arctic...
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STARS OVER ICE: December 2012
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As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness, to the end, to the end, they remain." - Laurence Binyon. Saturday, December 29, 2012. Owen Beattie Makes Everyone Green. At least, that's the theme of a Forward Prize-winning poem by UK poet and novelist Sheenagh Pugh. The poem appears in her anthology Stonelight. Yet, just who was John Torrington? We know him as the chief stoker on board H.M.S. January 1st will mark the 167th anniversary of John Shaw Torrington's passing. Let us take a moment...
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STARS OVER ICE: May 2013
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As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness, to the end, to the end, they remain." - Laurence Binyon. Saturday, May 25, 2013. Your own proud land's heroic soil. Shall be your fitter grave;. She claims from war his richest spoil-. The ashes of her brave. These stirring lines form the second half of the ninth octet of Theodore O'Hara's venerated poem "Bivouac of the Dead.". According to Richard J. Cyriax's Sir John Franklin's Last Arctic Expedition. That, however, is another tale. When many a ...
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Sir John Franklin's Final Expedition: Death in the Ice: The Shocking Story of Franklin's Final Expedition (National Maritime Museum)
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Sir John Franklin's Final Expedition. Remembering The Franklin Expedition. Saturday, 28 January 2017. Death in the Ice: The Shocking Story of Franklin's Final Expedition (National Maritime Museum). The National Maritime Museum. Has announced a major new exhibition ( Death in the Ice: The Shocking Story of Franklin’s Final Expedition. Exploring the mysterious fate of Sir John Franklin and his crew on their final expedition – a mystery that still remains unsolved today. As Parks Canada’s Underwater A...
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