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Ross Campbell	Concerning Franklin and His Gallant Crew - 1845 (202* d)	RE: Concerning Franklin and His Gallant Crew - 1845	14 Apr 21
Re henryp's list of sucessful transits - there is one more. I remember an article and pictures from the time in National Geographic magazine. "SS Manhattan was an oil tanker constructed at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, that became the first commercial ship to cross the Northwest Passage in 1969." (Wiki) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Manhattan_(1962) My friend Ron Baxter (Sailor Ron on Mudcat, not net-connected these days) saw the Manhattan on one of his trips to the USA. He reckons the state of the ship's plates was the reason that ideas of a second transit were abandoned, along with plans for commercial exploitation (for the time being) of the North West Passage. I just finished binge-watching "Terror" on BBC iPlayer. Interesting novelisation of how things might have been. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0954ks6/the-terror?seriesId=p0954l6v Ross

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