John Franklin/Timelines

List of Franklin search expeditions

1848–1849: James Clark Ross in Investigator and Enterprise 1848–1851: John Richardson and John Rae overland expedition 1848–1851: Plover and Herald via Bering Strait 1849: William Penney (Captain) John Anstruther Goodsir (naturalist) in whaling vessel Advice 1850–1854: Robert McClure in Investigator via Bering Strait 1850–1855: Richard Collinson in Enterprise via Bering Strait 1850–1851: William Penny in Lady Franklin and Sophia 1850–1851: Horatio T. Austin in four-ship Royal Navy expedition 1850–1851: Sir John Ross in private expedition 1850: Charles Codrington Forsyth in Prince Albert, financed by Lady Franklin 1850–1851: Edwin J. De Haven in first Grinnell expedition 1851–1852: William Kennedy and Joseph René Bellot in Prince Albert, financed by Lady Franklin 1852–1854: Sir Edward Belcher in a five-ship Royal Navy expedition 1852: Edward Augustus Inglefield in Isabel, financed by Lady Franklin 1853–1855: Elisha Kent Kane in second Grinnell expedition 1853–1854: John Rae on behalf of the Hudson Bay Company 1857–1859: Francis Leopold McClintock in Fox, financed by Lady Franklin 1864–1869: Charles Francis Hall 1875: Allen Young in Pandora, in a private expedition 1876: Allen Young in Pandora, in a second private expedition which also took despatches to the expedition of Sir George Nares for the Admiralty 1878–1880: Frederick Schwatka, sponsored by the American Geographical Society