Susie Morello
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Historian at heart. Independent scholar. Currently researching & writing about the C19th Royal Navy in the Arctic & Antarctic.
“Vixens” perhaps?
September 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“Vixens” perhaps?
And here’s an article which hypothesises what Crozier and the Expedition officers may have been celebrating on this day, if not Crozier’s birthday: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A note relating to the birth date of Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier R.N., F.R.S., F.R.A.S. | Polar Record | Cambridge Core
A note relating to the birth date of Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier R.N., F.R.S., F.R.A.S. - Volume 58
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August 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
And here’s an article which hypothesises what Crozier and the Expedition officers may have been celebrating on this day, if not Crozier’s birthday: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
2 Mar. 1847 - JCR wrote that no one acquainted with the navigation of the region would expect Franklin to pass through Bering Strait without at least 2 overwinters, the expedition was provisioned on full allowance for 3 years, stretchable to 4 & he t/fore would not send after them until Spring 1848
March 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
2 Mar. 1847 - JCR wrote that no one acquainted with the navigation of the region would expect Franklin to pass through Bering Strait without at least 2 overwinters, the expedition was provisioned on full allowance for 3 years, stretchable to 4 & he t/fore would not send after them until Spring 1848
And yet by 3 August 1847, James Ross had secured the agreement of Edward Bird and Dr John Robertson to accompany him on a search expedition under his command. So many friendships riven by the loss of the Expedition…
March 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
And yet by 3 August 1847, James Ross had secured the agreement of Edward Bird and Dr John Robertson to accompany him on a search expedition under his command. So many friendships riven by the loss of the Expedition…