Recollections of a Lost Crew

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[Crozier's ongoing notes on Erebus and Terror's muster rolls - full of 'creative' spelling choices.]
 
 

HMS Terror

Officers

Edward Little, Lieutenant -  Led party after FRMC's capture by mutineers. Body found by FRMC at 'Starvation Cove'.  Died of one or more of these causes: consumption, starvation, poisoning, illness (scurvy or otherwise)

George Henry Hodgson, Lieutenant - tuunbaq 

John Irving, Lieutenant - murdered by imposter

Frederick John Hornby, Mate - heart failure on the ice

Robert Thomas, Mate

Giles Alexander McBean, Second Master - tuunbaq

Thomas Blanky, Ice Master (Whitby, Yorkshire) - leg amputated after tuunbaq attack. Wound turned gangrenous and gave himself over to the tuunbaq

John Smart Peddie, Surgeon - killed in the Carnivale fire

Alexander McDonald, Assistant Surgeon - accidentally gored by imposter during Carnivale fire

E.J. Helpman, Clerk in Charge

Warrant Officers

James Thompson, Engineer

John Lane, Boatswain

Thomas Honey, Carpenter (Portsmouth) - decapitated by tuunbaq during  attack at Terror Camp

Petty Officers

Thomas Johnson (Corbridge), Boatswain's Mate, age 28

Alexander Wilson (Lindisfarne), Carpenter's Mate, age 27

Reuben Male (Woolwich), Captain of the Forecastle, age 27

David McDonald (Peterhead, Scotland), Quartermaster, age 45

John Kenley (St. Monance, Fifeshire), Quartermaster

William Rhodes (Redingstreet, Kent), Quartermaster, age 31

Thomas Darlington (Plymouth, Devon), Caulker, age 29 - tuunbaq attack on ships

Samuel Honey (Plymouth, Devon), Blacksmith, age 22 - tuunbaq attack at Terror Camp

John Torrington (Manchester), Leading Stoker, age 19 - consumption, buried on Beechey Island during winter of '46

John Diggle (Westminster, London), Cook, age 36 - tuunbaq

John Wilson (Portsea, Hampshire), Captain's Coxwain, age 33

Thomas R. Farr (Deptford, Kent), Captain of the Maintop, age 32 - murdered by imposter

Harry Peglar (London, Middlesex), Captain of the Foretop, age 37  - scurvy

William Goddard (Gt. Yarmouth, Norfolk), Captain of the Hold, age 39 - tuunbaq attack at Terror Camp

Cornelius Hickey (Limerick, Ireland), Caulker's Mate, age 24 - murdered by imposter. Imposter killed by tuunbaq after failed Netsilik shaman ritual. 

Thomas Jopson (Marylebone, Middlesex), Captain's Steward, age 27 - Body found by FRMC. Starvation, scurvy, exposure (?)

Thomas Armitage (Chatham, Kent), Gun-room Steward, age 40 - murdered by Manson

William Gibson (London, Middlesex), Subordinate Officers' Steward, age 22 - starvation, scurvy stabbed by imposter, consumed by mutineers

Edward Genge (Gosport, Hampshire), Subordinate Officers' Steward, age 21

Luke Smith (London, Middlesex), Stoker, age 27

William Johnson (Kiston-Lindsey, Lincolnshire), Stoker, age 45

Able Seamen

George J. Cann (Battersea, Middlesex), age 23

William Strong (Portsmouth, Hampshire), age 22 - tuunbaq; clawed in half and returned to the ship

David "William" Sims (Gedney, Lincolnshire), age 24

John Bailey (Leyton, Essex), age 21

William Jerry (Pembroke, Wales), age 29

Henry Sait (Bognor, Sussex), age 23

Alexander Berry (S. Ferry, Fifeshire), age 32

John Handford, age 28

John Bates (London, Middlesex), age 24

Samuel Crispe, age 24 - unknown

Charles Johnson, age 28

William Shanks, age 29

David Leys, age 37 - tuunbaq attack at Terror Camp

William Sinclair, age 30

Goerge Kinnaird, age 23

Edwin Lawrence, age 30

Magnus Manson, age 28 - killed by tuunbaq

James Walker, age 29

William Wentzall, age 33 - killed by tuunbaq

Royal Marines

Solomon Tozer, Sergeant, age 34 - killed by tuunbaq

William Hedges, Corporal, age 30 - body found by FRMC at 'Starvation Cove'.  Died of one or more of these causes: consumption, starvation, poisoning, illness (scurvy or otherwise)

William Heather, Private, age 37 - scalped by the tuunbaq, killed by the carnivale fire

Henry Wilkes, Private, age 28

John Hammond, Private, age 32

James Daly, Private, age 30 - mutineer camp, killed by the tuunbaq or exposure.

Boys

Robert Golding, age 19

Thomas Evans, age 18 - taken by the tuunbaq; clawed in half and returned to the ship in pieces

HMS Erebus

Officers

Sir John Franklin, Captain, Commanding the Expedition - killed by tuunbaq June 11, 1847

James Fitzjames, Commander - assisted suicide by [heavily scratched out] FRMC

Graham Gore, Lieutenant - first death by tuunbaq, May 28th or 29th, 1847

H.T.D. Le Vesconte, Lieutenant - body found by FRMC at 'Starvation Cove'.  Died of one or more of these causes: consumption, starvation, poisoning, illness (scurvy or otherwise)

James Walter Fairholme, Lieutenant - led rescue party out after Sir John's death, decapitated by tuunbaq

Robert Orme Sergeant, Mate

Charles Frederick Des Voeux, Mate - mutineer,  tuunbaq or exposure

Edward Couch, Mate

Henry Foster Collins, Second Master - gored and disemboweled by tuunbaq at Terror Camp

James Reid, Ice Master  - tuunbaq attack at Terror Camp

Stephen Samuel Stanley, Surgeon - self-immolation at Carnivale

Harry D.S. Goodsir, Assistant Surgeon - suicide by poison

Charles Hamilton Osmer, Purser

Warrant Officers

John Gregory, Engineer

Thomas Terry, Boatswain

John Weekes, Carpenter -  body found by FRMC at 'Starvation Cove'.  Died of one or more of these causes: consumption, starvation, poisoning, illness (scurvy or otherwise)

Petty Officers

John Murray, Sailmaker, age 43

William Smith, Blacksmith, age 28

Thomas Burt, Armorer, age 22

James W. Brown, Caulker, age 28

Francis Dunn, Caulker's Mate, age 25

Thomas Watson, Carpenter's Mate, age 40

Samuel Brown, Boatswain's Mate, age 27

Richard Wall, Ship's Cook, age 45 - tuunbaq

James Rigden, Captain's Coxwain, age 32

William Bell, Quartermaster, age 36

Daniel Arthur, Quartermaster, age 35 - body found by FRMC at 'Starvation Cove'.  Died of one or more of these causes: consumption, starvation, poisoning, illness (scurvy or otherwise)

John Downing, Quartermaster

Robert Sinclair, Captain of the Foretop, age 25

John Sullivan, Captain of the Maintop, age 28

Phillip Reddington, Captain of the Forecastle, age 28

Joseph Andrews, Captain of the Hold, age 35

Edmund Hoar, Captain's Steward, age 23 - tuunbaq, or exposure

John Bridgens, Subordinate Officers' Steward, age 26  62 - walked into the wilderness to die of exposure 

Richard Aylmore, Gunroom Steward, age 24

William Fowler, Purser's Steward, age 26

John Cowie, Stoker

Thomas Plater, Stoker

Able Seamen

George Thompson, age 27

John Hartnell, age 25 - consumption, buried on Beechey Island during winter of '46

John Stickland, age 24

Thomas Hartnell, age 23 - shot by Des Voeux, consumed by mutineers 

William Orren, age 34 - fell overboard; drowned 

William Closson, age 25

Charles Coombs, age 28

John Morfin, age 25 - suicide/murder by Tozer, driven mad by poison in food.

Charles Best, age 23 - body found by FRMC at 'Starvation Cove'.  Died of one or more of these causes: consumption, starvation, poisoning, illness (scurvy or otherwise)

Thomas McConvey, age 24

Henry Lloyd, age 26

Thomas Work, age 41

Robert Ferrier, age 29

Josephus Geater, age 32

Thomas Tadman, age 28 - body found by FRMC at 'Starvation Cove'.  Died of one or more of these causes: consumption, starvation, poisoning, illness (scurvy or otherwise)

Abraham Seeley, age 34

Francis Pocock, age 24

Robert Johns, age 24

William Mark, age 24

Royal Marines

David Bryant, Sergeant, age 31 - tuunbaq

Alexander Pearson, Corporal, age 30

Robert Hopcraft, Private, age 38

William Pilkington, Private, age 28 - tuunbaq

William Braine, Private, age 31 - consumption, buried on Beechey Island during winter of '46

Joseph Healey, Private, age  29

William Reed, Private, age 28

Boys

George Chambers, age 18 - body found by FRMC at 'Starvation Cove'.  Died of one or more of these causes: consumption, starvation, poisoning, illness (scurvy or otherwise)

David Young, age 18 - consumption, buried on shore of King William Island '47