Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition

Appendix One

List of the officers and crews of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror taken from their Muster Books, 1845. Source: Admiralty Records, Public Record Office.

HMS Erebus

CAPTAIN Sir John Franklin

COMMANDER James Fitzjames

LIEUTENANTS Graham Gore, H.T.D. Le Vesconte, James W. Fairholme

MATES Robert O. Sargent, Charles F. Des Voeux, Edward Couch

SECOND MASTER Henry F. Collins

SURGEON Stephen S. Stanley

ACTING ASSISTANT-SURGEON Harry D.S. Goodsir

PAYMASTER AND PURSER Charles H. Osmer

ACTING MASTER James Reid

WARRANT OFFICERS John Gregory (engineer), Thomas Terry (boatswain), John Weekes (carpenter)

PETTY OFFICERS Philip Reddington (captain of the forecastle), Thomas Watson (carpenter’s mate), John Murray (sailmaker), James W. Brown (caulker), William Smith (blacksmith), Samuel Brown (boatswain’s mate), Richard Wall (cook), James Rigden (captain’s coxswain), John Sullivan (captain of the maintop), Robert Sinclair (captain of the foretop), Joseph Andrews (captain of the hold), Edmund Hoar (captain’s steward), Richard Aylmore (gunroom steward), Daniel Arthur (quartermaster), John Downing (quartermaster), William Bell (quartermaster), Francis Dunn (caulker’s mate), William Fowler (paymaster and purser’s steward), John Bridgens (subordinate officers’ steward), James Hart (leading stoker), John Cowie (stoker), Thomas Plater (stoker)

ABLE SEAMEN Henry Lloyd, John Stickland, Thomas Hartnell, JOHN HARTNELL, George Thompson, William Orren, Charles Coombs, William Closson, William Mark, Thomas Work, Charles Best, George Williams, John Morfin, Thomas Tadman, Abraham Seely, Thomas McConvey, Robert Ferrier, Josephus Geater, Robert Johns, Francis Pocock

ROYAL MARINES David Bryant (sergeant), Alexander Paterson (corporal), Joseph Healey (private), WILLIAM BRAINE (private), William Reed (private), Robert Hopcraft (private), William Pilkington (private)

BOYS George Chambers, David Young

HMS Terror

CAPTAIN Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier

LIEUTENANTS Edward Little, John Irving, George H. Hodgson

MATES Robert Thomas, Frederick John Hornby

SECOND MASTER Gillies A. Macbean

SURGEON John S. Peddie

ASSISTANT SURGEON Alexander MacDonald

CLERK-IN-CHARGE E.J.H. Helpman

ACTING MASTER Thomas Blanky

WARRANT OFFICERS Thomas Honey (carpenter), John Lane (boatswain), James Thompson (engineer)

PETTY OFFICERS Reuben Male (captain of the forecastle), Thomas Johnson (boatswain’s mate), JOHN TORRINGTON (leading stoker), Alexander Wilson (carpenter’s mate), David MacDonald (quartermaster), William Rhodes (quartermaster), John Kenley (quartermaster), Thomas Darlington (caulker), John Diggle (cook), Thomas Farr (captain of the maintop), Henry Peglar (captain of the foretop), John Wilson (captain’s coxswain), Samuel Honey (blacksmith), William Goddard (captain of the hold), Thomas Jopson (captain’s steward), Thomas Armitage (gunroom steward), Cornelius Hickey (caulker’s mate), Edward Genge (paymaster’s steward), William Gibson (subordinate officers’ steward), Luke Smith (stoker), William Johnson (stoker)

ABLE SEAMEN George Cann, William Shanks, David Sims, William Sinclair, William Jerry, Henry Sait, Alexander Berry, John Bailey, Samuel Crispe, John Bates, William Wentzall, William Strong, John Handford, Charles Johnson, David Leys, George Kinnaird, Magnus Manson, James Walker, Edwin Laurence

ROYAL MARINES Solomon Tozer (sergeant), William Hedges (corporal), Henry Wilks (private), John Hammond (private), James Daly (private), William Heather (private)

BOYS Robert Golding, Thomas Evans

Four crewmen who returned to Britain on the Barretto Junior and the Rattler before the Erebus and Terror entered the Arctic: Thomas Burt (armourer), John Brown (able seaman), James Elliot (sailmaker), William Aitken (Royal Marine private)