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Other Stuff => Workbench => "Build Something" Archiv => Topic started by: FinnN on December 29, 2019, 09:52:59 PM
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I'm going to attempt a HMS Terror locked in the ice and dilapidated by the survivors trying to keep warm and relentless Sasquatch attacks!
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Great idea...it sounds like a whole game in itself
8)
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Awesome idea...shall follow with interest
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Brilliant!
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Oh I watched a documentary on this once , on channel four I believe, didn't they find the boat based on the oral history of Inuit tribes?
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Oh I watched a documentary on this once , on channel four I believe, didn't they find the boat based on the oral history of Inuit tribes?
Tis true. After ignoring Inuit stories for decades, they found after finally listening to hunter who had seen the mast sticking out of the ice at one time. It took them less than 3 hours of searching the location. ::)
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That would be so cool - in more ways than one :D
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Aha, I've been reading Michael Palin's book "Erebus" about (surprisingly enough) HMS Erebus, which was the other ship on the ill-fated Franklin expedition. So I'm looking forward to seeing how this goes.
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Wow! this is a great idea!
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Holy shit... Yet a crazy ambitious idea. Best of luck!
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Looks like I’ve set myself a high bar - fingers crossed I manage to give birth to something worthy of the subject!
I’ve just got back from the frozen wastes of Canada over Christmas so I’m still only at the starting to collect references stage. It seems there’s a well known blog http://buildingterror.blogspot.com/ (http://buildingterror.blogspot.com/) which I’ll get at least some inspiration from. I also have a couple of books on the way.
My first challenge is getting a hull done - and I’m very keen that it has at least a bit of an accessible interior. I might try a 3d printed shell (in sections) with a more traditional interior, but we’ll see...
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I took a look at the ship technical drawings. The hull is incredibly thick!
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A ship which could be dilapidated would be unlikely to float in the first place. lol
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good luck
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John Rae sussed what had happened to both ships and their crews after searching for them in the 1850's and hearing directly from Inuit about survivors. His findings when published were given such harsh treatment by Mrs Franklin, via Charles Dickens that Rae never got the recognition he deserved either as an explorer or for finding the fate of the expedition.
Worth reading Fatal Passage by Ken McGoogan, if only for general background about Rae's search and the land and environment.
Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
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I took a look at the ship technical drawings. The hull is incredibly thick!
Yep! They were "Bomb Ships" originally, build to support heavy coastal bombardment batteries during the wars. After Nappy was shipped off the the island (the second time), many of these especially-tough ships were repurposed by the Royal Navy for polar exploration.
That whole story of the RN looking to use its war surplus in interesting ways while also giving the surfeit of listed officers something to do is a saga in and of itself. Look up John Barrow, the (then) post-war Secretary of the Admiralty if you're curious.