HMS Investigator

Local nameHMS Investigator
LocationInuvialuit Settlement Region

HMS Investigator was a merchant ship purchased in 1848 to search for Sir John Franklin's ill-fated Northwest Passage expedition. She made two voyages to the Arctic and had to be abandoned in 1853, after becoming trapped in the pack ice.

Her wreckage was found in July 2010, off Banks Island in the Beaufort Sea. She was the fourth ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name.

Tags Shipwreck
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Title: The devils thumb,… @ Haghe, Charles, -1888, lithographer; Browne, W. H. (William Henry), artist

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Investigator_(1848)

Address Canada

Coordinates 74°5'3.829" N -119°0'9.428" E

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