Franklin's ship Terror discovered

[Momotaro]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/12/hms-terror-wreck-found-arctic-nearly-170-years-northwest-passage-attempt

Don't know if it's been mentioned here already, but two years after Sir John Franklin's ship Erebus was discovered in the Canadian Arctic, the wreck of his second ship, Terror, has also been found and its identity confirmed by dive.

Reports are that the ship is in perfect condition (I mean, apart from being sunk), with cans and plates still on shelves.

The clue came from an Inuit hunter, who reported a wooden mast sticking up through the sea ice but lost his camera on the way home.  It looks now like the ship was buttoned up, and the survivors continued south aboard Erebus before that too sank.  IIRC, it was an Inuit legend that also gave clues to the position of Erebus.

Truly an amazing discovery.

[Vanvlak]

Hadn't seen that - thanks.

[Westfalia Chris]

"Just for one time, I will take the Northwest Passage - to find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea..."

Haunting - from every point of view.

[Gibby]

Haunting and inspiring. I cannot wait to see what they find. I am really fascinated by that landscape. Imagine how bleak and haunting it would be to see a mast sticking out of a grey, freezing bit of ocean as you trudge home through the snow.

[Emir of Askaristan]

Fascinating....still so much to learn about this fatal voyage.

[Morgan]

It is amazing to finally find these vessels.

I'm going to regurgitate "something that I read once", though, and challenge the phrase "searching for the Northwest Passage" that seems to be in each media report. I read a very learned book on the subject of the Franklin Expedition a few years back which explained in compelling detail that they were already well aware that the Passage was essentially non-existent. The expedition was, instead, mapping magnetic fields. 

*has a quick Google*

Ah, yes, this is the one:
http://www.faber.co.uk/blog/in-conversation-andrew-lambert/

(Further research via the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game and the Marvel comic 'Alpha Flight' has convinced me that the expedition was actually destroyed by either a Gnoph-Keh or the villain 'Pestilence' ;-)  )