Interesting maritime memorabilia

AFTER the disappearance of Sir John Franklin’s Northwest Passage Expedition aboard HMS ‘Terror’ and HMS ‘Erebus’ in the 1840’s, there were over thirty subsequent searches for the lost expedition members and some unusual methods used.

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As well as using ballons with notes tied to them and placing collars on Artic foxes with messages to communicate to any survivors, search party teams took ‘Rescue buttons’ which they handed out to Inuit hunters to pass onto any of Franklin’s men they came across.