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Events on Saturday 22 April 1848 1
1848Franklin expedition abandons its shipsCrews leave HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in the Arctic iceOn 22 April, the 105 survivors of Sir John Franklin's expedition left their ships, which had been trapped in ice off King William Island. A note left at Victory Point recorded that Franklin and many others had died. None of the men survived the march south.