Roster of
John Franklin’s 1845 expedition
to find the northwest passage
Roster of the HMS Erubus ||| Roster of the HMS Terror
HMS Erubus:
Officers:
Sir John Franklin
James Fitzjames
Graham Gore
H. T .D. Les Vesconte
James Fairholme
Robert Sargent
Charles DeVoeux
Edward Couch
Henry Collins
James Reid
Stephen Stanley
Harry Goodsir
Charles Osmer
Warrant Officers:
John Gregory
Thomas Terry
John Weeks
Petty Officers:
John Murray
William Smith
Thomas Burt
James Brown
Francis Dunn
Thomas Watson
Samuel Brown
Richard Wall
James Rigden
John Downing
William Bell
Daniel Arthur
Robert Sinclair
John Sullivan
Phillip Reddington
Joseph Andrews
Edmund hoar
John Bridgens
Richard Aylmore
William Fowler
James Hart
John Cowie
Thomas Plater
Able-Bodied Seamen:
John Morfin
Charles Coombs
George Thompson
John Hartnell
Thomas Hartnell
John Strickland
William Orren
William Closson
Charles Best
Thomas McConvey
Henry Lloyd
Thomas Work
Rober Ferrier
Joseph Greater, (properly: Josephus Geater)
George Williams
Thomas Tadman
Abraham Seely
Francis Pocock
Robert Johns
William Mark
Royal Marines:
David Bryant
Alexander Paterson
Robert Hopcroft
William Pilkington
William Braine
Joseph Healey
William Reed
Volunteers 1st class
George Chambers
David Young
HMS Terror:
Officers:
Francis Cozier
Edward Little
George Hodgson
John Irving
Frederick Hornby
Robert Thomas
Giles MacBean
Thomas Blanky
John Peddie
Alexander MacDonald
E. J. Helpman
Warrant Officers:
James Thompson
John Lane
Thomas Honey
Petty Officers:
James Elliott
Samuel Honey
Robert Carr
Thomas Darlington
Cornelius Hickey
Alexander Wilson
Thomas Johnson
John Diggle
John Wilson
David MacDonald
William Rhodes
Henry Peglar
Thomas Farr
Reuben Male
William Goddard
Thomas Jopson
Thomas Armitage
Edward Genge
John Torrington
Luke Smith
William Johnson
Suborinate Officers’ Steward (unclassified Rank)
William Gibson
Able-Bodied Seamen:
George Cann
William Strong
David Sims
John Bailey
William Jerry
JoHenry Sait
Alexander Berry
John Handford
John Bates
Samuel Crispe
Charles Johnson
William Shanks
David Leys
William Sinclair
George Kinniard
Edwin Laurence
James Walker
William Wentzell
Magnus Manson
Royal Marines:
Solomon Tozer
William Hedges
William Aitken
Henry Wilks
James Daly
William Heather
John Hammond
Volunteers 1st Class
Robert Golding
Thomas Evans
Sources:
Cookman, Scott. Ice Blink, The Tragic Fate Of Sir John Franklin’s Lost Polar Expedition. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. Appendix IV.
Information regarding Subordinate Officer Steward, William Gibson, supplied by Franklin Expedition Historian Glenn M. Stein, Florida
Corrected name of Josephus Geater, seaman from Aberdeen, Scotland, was provided by family member Gary Dysart, Ontario