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| Name | Erebus (1826) | Explanation | |
| Type | Bomb vessel | ||
| Launched | 7 June 1826 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | 378 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 14 | ||
| Fate | 1848 | ||
| Class | Fury | ||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | 1844 screw discovery vessel. 1848 abandoned in Artic | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 8 April 1839 - September 1843 | Commanded by Captain James Clark Ross, particular service (antarctic discovery, together with Terror, Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier; reached the Ross sea, and travelled inland to within 500 miles of the magnetic south pole) | ||
| 3 March 1845 - 11 June 1847 | Commanded by Captain John Franklin, patricular service (together with Terror, Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier, the ill-fated British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition, 1845-1848, led by Franklin, and 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) | ||
| 11 June 1847 - 1850 | Commanded by Acting Captain James Fitzjames, after Sir John Franklin died, and until he himself died | ||
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