John Franklin

Sir John Franklin, FRGS (April 15, 1786 – June 11, 1847) was an English sea captain and Arctic explorer, whose fate ? and that of his last expedition ? was for many years a mystery.

List of Franklin Search Expeditions

• 1848–1849, James Clark Ross in Investigator and Enterprise
• 1848–1851, John Richardson and John Rae overland expedition
• 1848–1851, Plover and Herald via Bering Strait
• 1850–1854, Robert McClure in Investigator via Bering Strait
• 1850–1855, Richard Collinson in Enterprise via Bering Strait
• 1850–1851, William Penny in Lady Franklin and Sophia
• 1850–1851, Horatio T. Austin in four-ship Royal Navy expedition
• 1850–1851, Sir John Ross in private expedition
• 1850, Charles Codrington Forsyth in Prince Albert, financed by Lady Franklin
• 1850–1851, Edwin J. De Haven in first Grinnell expedition
• 1851–1852, William Kennedy and Joseph René Bellot in Prince Albert, financed by Lady Franklin
• 1852–1854, Sir Edward Belcher in a five-ship Royal Navy expedition
• 1852, Edward A. Inglefield in Isabel, financed by Lady Franklin
• 1853–1855, Elisha Kent Kane in second Grinnell expedition
• 1853–1854, John Rae on behalf of the Hudson Bay Company
• 1857–1859, Francis Leopold McClintock in Fox, financed by Lady Franklin
• 1864–1869, Charles Francis Hall
• 1878–1880, Frederick Schwatka, sponsored by the American Geographical Society