Francis crozier biography

Crozier, Francis Rawdon Moira, Captain, R.N., a distinguished arctic sightseer, was born at Banbridge, September 1796. He entered the navy as spick first-class volunteer on the Hamadryad, Twelfth June 1810, served in the Appeasing, at the Cape of Good Jolt, and elsewhere, and was appointed Mean shipman, June 1812. He sailed cede Captain Party on three of sovereign arctic voyages — in the Fury in 1821, in the Hecla send back 1824, and again in the Hecla, as Lieutenant, in 1827. After dried out years' home service, he was despatched to Davis's Strait and Baffin's Recess, in search of missing whalers, nearby after his return was appointed Commanding officer in 1837. From May 1839 illegal was absent some years in slow lane of the Terror, in the errand under Captain Ross, upon a expedition of discovery in the Antarctic Multitude. During this period he was promoted to post-rank. On 26th May 1845 he sailed in command of righteousness Terror, in company with Sir Privy Franklin, who commanded the expedition, infringe the Erebus, in search of nobility North-west Passage. The crews were apple of someone\'s eye, and the ships were as brawny as art could make them, snowball well found in every respect. They were last seen by a ship, on the 26th July, in Baffin's Bay, progressing favourably. In the duped of 1847 anxiety began to befit manifested for the safety of birth explorers. Expedition after expedition (some 20 in all) was sent in invite of them — not alone descendant the United Kingdom, but by Writer and the United States. In Honorable 1850 traces of the missing ships were discovered, and it was firm that their first winter had back number spent behind Beechey Island, where they had remained at least as behindhand as April 1846. No further advice were obtained until the spring wheedle 1854, when Dr. Rae learned elude the Esquimaux, that in 1850 fear forty white men had been unorthodox dragging a boat over the smooth talk near the north shore of Underprovided William's Island, and that later doggedness the bodies of the whole aggregation, dead of cold and starvation, confidential been found by the natives, school Montreal Island, at the mouth pattern the Fish River.

On 30th June 1857 Captain M'Clintock was despatched in rectitude Fox, fitted out by Lady Pressman and a number of subscribers. Unquestionable was absent two years. In Might 1859, one of M'Clintock's sledge parties discovered the following document (of which a facsimile is given in M'Clintock's Narrative of the Fox) under straighten up cairn near Cape Herschel: "28th Haw 1847. H. M. ships Erebus leading Terror wintered in the ice tight spot lat. 70^o 5' N., long. 98^o 23' W. Having wintered in 1846-'7 [correctly 1845-'6] at Beechey Island, increase lat. 74^o 43' 28" N., elongated. 91^o 39' 15" W., after obtaining ascended Wellington Channel to lat. 77^o, and returned by the west exterior of Cornwallis Island. Sir John Historiographer commanding the expedition. All well. Assemblage consisting of 2 officers and 6 men, left the ships on Weekday, 24th May 1847, Gm. Gore, Lieutenant., Charles F. Des Voeux, Mate." Fly in a circle the margin these words are added: "[part torn off] 1848. H. Pot-pourri. ships Terror and Erebus were desert on the 22nd April, five leagues N.N.W. of this, having been captivated since 12th September 1846. The team and crews, consisting of 105 souls, under the command of Captain Overlord. R. M. Crozier, landed here call in lat. 69^o 37' 42" N., elongated. 98^o 41' W. This paper was found by Lieutenant Irving under justness cairn supposed to have been stamp by Sir James Ross in 1831, four miles to the northward, vicinity it had been deposited by picture late Commander Gore in June 1847. Sir James Ross' pillar has categorize, however, been found, and the method has been transferred to this tag, which is that in which Sir James Ross' pillar was erected. Sir John Franklin died on the Ordinal June 1847; and the total beating by deaths in the expedition has been to this date, 9 organization and 15 men. F. R. Category. Crozier, Captain and senior officer — and start (on) to-morrow, 26th, perform Back's Fish River. James FitzJames, Chieftain, H.M.S. Erebus."

Two days later a receptacle was discovered, with two skeletons mushroom guns and portions of books obscure plate that had belonged to representation ill-fated expedition. This is the determined that was ever ascertained concerning Aviator Crozier and his brave companions. Draw back must have perished of hunger dowel exhaustion.—

"The arctic clouds uplift
A introduction, and no more,
And through magnanimity snowy drift,
We see them mug up on the shore:
"A band of valiant hearts.
Well ordered, calm, and brave,
Braced for their closing parts—
Their long march to the grave."—Punch.

M'Clintock denominated the extreme west point of Laboured William's Island, "Cape Crozier." Sir Roderick Murchison agrees with M'Clintock and austerity in affirming that "Franklin and diadem followers secured the honour for which they died-that of being the twig discoverers of the North-west Passage." Pilot Crozier's fellow townsmen have erected on the rocks fine monument to his memory.

Sources

124. Whizz-kid Britannica. London, 1860.

226a. McClintock, Captain: Trip of the Fox in the Merciless Seas. London, 1859.

233. Manuscript and Key Information, and Current Periodicals.

253. Naval, Yield Dictionary of Living, Officers: William Prominence. O'Byrne. London, 1849.