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Well done those chaps.

Two years ago HMS Erebus, now the missing half of Franklin's lost expedition, neither anywhere near where people had expected them to be for the last century and a half.

I think it's essential that both ships are raised onto barges to complete their intended journey through the Northwest Passage before being towed into Vancouver BC for restoration as museum ships. Norway already preserves Gjøa, Amundsen's ship which first sailed from Atlantic to Pacific over the top of Canada. Vancouver built a museum around St Roch, the first ship to make the sea journey from West to East, and that same museum is ideally placed to receive HMS Erebus and HMS Terror and preserve them for posterity on public display. They cannot just be left where they are. Money is an irrelevance with something this historic.

spot;1501050 wrote: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... ge-attempt

Well done those chaps.

Two years ago HMS Erebus, now the missing half of Franklin's lost expedition, neither anywhere near where people had expected them to be for the last century and a half.

I think it's essential that both ships are raised onto barges to complete their intended journey through the Northwest Passage before being towed into Vancouver BC for restoration as museum ships. Norway already preserves Gjøa, Amundsen's ship which first sailed from Atlantic to Pacific over the top of Canada. Vancouver built a museum around St Roch, the first ship to make the sea journey from West to East, and that same museum is ideally placed to receive HMS Erebus and HMS Terror and preserve them for posterity on public display. They cannot just be left where they are. Money is an irrelevance with something this historic.


Are they in a condition that would allow them to be lifted?

A display of firewood would not be enlightening

Erebus has damage from ice movement during storms to the stern above the waterline and, according to the team who explored the new find, Terror is so undamaged it would float if the water was pumped out. They both sound in far better condition than the Great Britain did.