FRANCIS MCCLINTOCK

In 1857, Lady Jane Franklin, the wife of Sir John Franklin, who went missing with his entire crew during his 1845 expedition to discover the Northwest Passage, commissioned Captain Francis McClintock to investigate what had happened to the expedition, and purchased for him the small steam yacht known as the Fox. This is McClintocks own account of the two year voyage of the Fox. Following an initially unsuccessful attempt to cross the Davis Strait, the Fox was forced to spend the first winter trapped in the sea-ice off the coast of Greenland. After the next years thaw, McClintock eventually reached the islands of the Canadian Arctic, where an extensive search finally revealed the grisly truth of the fate of Franklin.