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Edgar Allan Poe Museum

The Poe Museum

Richmond, VA

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The Franklin Expedition Set Sail

February 11, 2022

May 19th, 1845: The Franklin Expedition set sail for the Northwest Passage, the previously uncharted path from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean via the Arctic. The ships were likely caught in ice and wrecked. All 128 men onboard the ships were never seen again.

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