﻿4 FEANKLIN'S expedition. 1845. 



was also constructed for a bomb-vessel, and had 

 the bluif form, capacious hold, and strong frame- 

 work of that class of war vessels. When com- 

 manded by Captain Sir George Back, on his voyage 

 to Repulse Bay in 1836-7, she had been beset for 

 more than eleven months in drifting floes of ice, 

 and exposed to every variety of assault and pres- 

 sure to which a vessel was liable in such a danger- 

 ous position. In this severe and lengthened trial, 

 the " Terror " had been often pressed more or less 

 out of the water, or thrown over on one side, 

 and had, in consequence thereof, sustained some 

 damage, particularly in the stern post. All de- 

 fects, however, were made good in 1839, when she 

 sailed for the Antarctic Seas, under the command 

 of Captain Crozier, the second officer of Sir James 

 C. Ross's expedition. She was again examined, 

 and made as strong as ever, before Captain Crozier 

 took the command of her a second time in 1845. 



The best plans that former experience could 

 suggest for ventilating and warming the ships in 

 the winter were adopted, and full supplies of every 

 requisite for arctic navigation were provided, in- 

 cluding an ample stock of warm bedding, clothing, 

 and provisions, with a proportion of preserved 

 meats and pemican. 



The expedition sailed from England on the 

 19th of j\Tay, 1845, and, early in July, had 



