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
4 January 1836
- 24 March 1836
Commanded by Commander Edward Belcher
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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