﻿NAMES OF THE OFFICERS. 



The following officers joined the expedition : — 



Terror. 

 Capt, Francis R. ]M. Crozier. 

 Lieutenant, Edward Little. 

 Lieut., George PI. Hodgson. 

 Lieutenant, John Irving. 

 Ice-Master, Thomas Blanky. 

 Surgeon, John S. Peddie. 

 Assist.- Surgeon, A. M'Donald. 

 Sec. Mr., Gillies A. Maclean. 

 Clerk-in- Charge, Edward J. 

 H. Helpman. 



Erebus. 

 Captain, Sir John Franklin, 



Kt. K. C. H. 

 Commander, James Fitzjames. 

 Lieutenant, Graham Gore. 

 Lieut., H. P. D. Le Vesconte. 

 IJeut., James W. Fairholme. 

 Ice-Master, James Read. 

 Surgeon, Stephen S. Stanley. 

 Paymaster, C. H. Osmer. 

 Assist.- Surg., H. D. S. Goodsir. 

 Sec. Master, Henry F. Collins. 



And the conjoined crews of the two ships amounted 

 to 130 souls. 



The " Erebus," originally built for a bomb- 

 vessel, and therefore strongly framed, was of 370 

 tons measurement, and had been fortified, in 1839, 

 after the most approved plan, by an extra or dou- 

 ble exterior planking and diagonal bracing within, 

 for Sir James C. Ross's antarctic voyage, from 

 which she returned in 1843. Having been care- 

 fully examined and refitted for Sir John Franklin, 

 she was considered to be as strongly prepared to 

 resist the pressure of the ice as the resources of 

 science, and the utmost care of Mr. Rice, the skilful 

 master-shipwright who superintended the prepar- 

 ations, could ensure. The " Terror," of 340 tons, 



by the same channel. The above abstract mentions the leading 

 points which would direct the course of the expedition. 



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