The Lost Franklin Expedition (2023 edition)

The poisoned lead sinks in the officer's cabin is a pretty good explanation for the bizarre cairn notes. Good lecture, keep up the good work!

So many interesting details that I have never heard of before in connection with Fanklin and his last adventure. Thank you!

33:26 huh? Wait. It wasn't just a random page from a random book... those were templates given to the command of any expedition to leave out in canisters. They should have had many of the exact same page to fill out. You can discern that by the fact that, in fact, Franklin was not the one who signed the note. Lt. Gore and Des Voeux did at the bottom of the notes, which isn't shown. And because the commander did not sign it, the printed line meant for a signature with the word: "commander" next to it have been crossed out... it was meant to be filled out like that. Also, what isn't shown in the extract (and I suppose it was for the effect of discovering Fitzjames' addition...) are the instructions to send back that note to British Admiralty upon discovery. Instructions written in 6 different languages. The goal of these notes was to leave out clues of where expedition ships had gone and where they were going 1) maybe for history keeping purposes 2) in case they needed rescue so that they could be found. The cairns were to be erected so that the notes would be easy to find and filled with chached provision in case the expedition, or their rescue, needed it. It was actually stranger that no such notes had been left at Beechey Island with the graves. I mean, yes, many of the things we've discovered about the expeditions last moment show that these men were in a weird headspace but the original Victory Point note was not one of them. I don't know, I find that having these kind of factoids about the crumbs they were supposed to leave (and didn't) is more interesting for its historical funfactness than making up that they were already so disturbed they apparently just took the page of any book?

Great talk by you. I have strongly suspected that there was a mutiny early on at some point, hence the death of Franklin & so many officers compared to crew. That the ship's diary & surgeon's log has never been found is even more evidence in my mind something nefarious happened. Will we ever know?

36:40 Wasn't the idea that the uneaten chocolate was that the men were weary of it, as it was a new discovery from South America and they were suspicious of it?

Ship found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Passage attemp, CROYGENTICS ,sperm cryopreservation around 1950, 3 bodys found.