Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
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John Handford
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John Franklin statue
{On the front of the plinth:} To the great arctic navigator and his brave co...
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John Torrington
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Captain Matthew Flinders
Explorer and navigator of the Australian seas. Born in Donington, Lincolnshire. Invented the Flinders Bar, a device for counteracting the vertical component of a ship's magnetic field, and gave Aus...
Captain John Smith
Citizen and cordwainer (cobbler), first among the leaders of the settlement at Jamestown, Virginia from which began the overseas expansion of the English speaking peoples. Born Lancashire. 16 year...
George Kinnaird
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Sir Henry Morton Stanley
Explorer and journalist, born as John Rowlands at Denbigh, Wales. Illegitimate and brought up in a workhouse, he sailed to America as a cabin boy in 1859. He befriended a trader called Henry Hope S...
Person, Exploring, Journalism / Publishing, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, Africa, USA, Wales
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