tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460851571985771047.post2596532649710675239..comments2024-01-23T08:36:56.787-08:00Comments on Erebus & Terror Files: The writing's on the wall for little 'Weesy' Coppin (if my memory serves me right).Peter Carneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11720739633773324546noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460851571985771047.post-85571031912089744042012-06-30T12:57:06.119-07:002012-06-30T12:57:06.119-07:00Oh! sorry for the mistake about S.J.F. i didn´t ch...Oh! sorry for the mistake about S.J.F. i didn´t check his titles.<br /><br />Ross seemed to be cursed, he missed also the Bellot Strait if i remember well. But i don´t understand why nobody took measures before, it would have to be obvious to anyone who sailed in those waters. Perhaps the reason was the necessity to employ the Navy men after the war, smaller ships would employ less people..., who knows. <br /><br />I am reading the journal of Hood right now and in fact is really fascinating. Hood writes incredibly well, his writing is fresher than the Franklin Journal (he was in his twenties then). In fact the whole trilogy of C.S.Houston seems to be very interesting. The book is full of thorough commentaries of the editor and offers a lot of new sources of information and helps to understand better the character of Franklin.<br /><br />For example, the editor explains how the original journal was recovered from an old box in the family house (The Birch family) of the descendants of Catherine Hood sister of Robert Hood) when the house was going to be abandoned. Looking in Internet i´ve located, in a genealogical forum, at one of the great great grand sons of Catherine Hood (there were several unmistakable connections) so i´ve just warn him of who seem to be his ancestors. You can imagine his surprise. He didn´t know anything about it, and now he is checking it with his relatives.Andrés Paredeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17283802897907742244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460851571985771047.post-23632483281570283522012-06-30T03:52:05.855-07:002012-06-30T03:52:05.855-07:00Thanks for all the comments.
The fact that John R...Thanks for all the comments.<br /><br />The fact that John Ross volunteered to lead a search even before Franklin sailed clearly shows his foresight. Sadly Ross's standing with the Admiralty had never recovered from his 1818 mistake in delaring Lancaster sound to be merely a bay.<br /><br />I would certainly agree that the "Revelation" did encourage Lady Franklin to send the expedition which discovered Bellot Strait and so did have an impact on the voyage of the 'Fox'.<br /><br />Fitzjames was not a knight (so not a 'Sir'), but he was likely named after the mysterious "Sir James Fitzjames" of Sir Walter Scott's narrative poem 'The Lady of the Lake' (1810). The character is a King in disguise.<br /><br />Clearly Hood anticipated Ross's advice to some extent - I'll add that book to my list. Both Amundsen's Gjøa and Nansen's Fram fit Ross's spcifications for suitable vessels.Peter Carneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11720739633773324546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460851571985771047.post-27095412943879989022012-06-27T00:17:38.479-07:002012-06-27T00:17:38.479-07:00Hello, great job! Certainly the deduction of the m...Hello, great job! Certainly the deduction of the meaning of this spelling is a matter to be hooked. It seems that S.J.F can be translated also as "Sir James Fitzjames", isnt´it? But it makes more sense "Sir John Franklin".<br /><br />Is a casuality but I´ve recently discovered, reading the book "To the arctic by canoe 1819-1821: The journals and paintings of Robert Hood" by C.Stuart Houston, that Robert Hood made similar considerations or conclusions at his arrival at York Factory as that that John Ross made although for different purposes. <br /><br />Hood wrote about how appropiate would be using lighter ships to maneuver among the ice floes in the Hudson Bay and for carrying their loads upstream to the Forts. The Hudson Bay Ships often were captured there by the ice preventing them returning to England. <br /><br />He considers that a bigger number of ships would increase the opportunities to avoid being trapped by the ice and that this also would increase the oportunities to help each other in that case.<br /><br />Amundsen demonstrate the theory, though in different weather and enviromental conditions.Andrés Paredeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17283802897907742244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460851571985771047.post-6113543569352582722012-06-26T13:50:54.604-07:002012-06-26T13:50:54.604-07:00Sounds like a reasonable conclusion!Sounds like a reasonable conclusion!Jaeschylushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12204972787032135611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460851571985771047.post-9174737010137356942012-06-24T15:16:34.697-07:002012-06-24T15:16:34.697-07:00Peter, great post! I agree with nearly everything,...Peter, great post! I agree with nearly everything, but would differ in that I do think that the "Revelation" had the effect of leading to the discovery of Bellot Strait, and that (even though he could have gotten there by a more circuitous route) McClintock did indeed friend Franklin's final record at Victory Point is connected with this. I'm still puzzling over B.V.F.R.G.R.L.S.P.F.M.F.M. though! Some additional thoughts spurred by your post are on my blog <a href="http://visionsnorth.blogspot.com/2012/06/writing-on-wall.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.Russell Potterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11023313195827310776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460851571985771047.post-30333714524223815442012-06-24T03:25:45.426-07:002012-06-24T03:25:45.426-07:00And in fact told Franklin before the expedition sa...And in fact told Franklin before the expedition sailed that if no news of him was received by mid-January 1847, he would volunteer to go on a search.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com