HMS Terror (1813)
HMS Terror (1813)


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NameTerror (1813)Explanation
TypeBomb   
Launched29 June 1813
HullWooden
PropulsionSail
Builders measure326 tons
Displacement 
Guns10
Fate1848
Class 
Ships book
Note1836 discovery vessel.
1848 abandoned in Artic
Snippets concerning this vessels career
DateEvent
11 May 1836
- 16 November 1837
Commanded by Captain George Back, discovery voyage to Hudson's Bay
11 May 1839Commanded by Commander Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier, particular service (the British Naval Expedition, 1839-1843 (leader James Clark Ross), organized to conduct a series of magnetic observations in the southern hemisphere and to locate and reach the South Magnetic Pole if possible)
8 March 1845Commanded by Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier, particular service (the ill-fated British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition, 1845-1848, led by Sir John Franklin), sent by the Admiralty to search for a Northwest Passage beyond Lancaster Sound and Barrow Strait in the unexplored region south-west of Barrow Strait.


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