tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873756940955163469.post1047230899859716499..comments2024-03-18T18:05:25.821-07:00Comments on VISIONS OF THE NORTH: The Terror, in all her glory ...Russell Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11023313195827310776noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873756940955163469.post-60665479398611605722016-10-19T01:53:13.477-07:002016-10-19T01:53:13.477-07:00I wonder if the direction the ship is facing may b...I wonder if the direction the ship is facing may be significant. It might point towards a cairn or Franklin's own grave. I can't help but wonder that the last survivors knowing they were doomed may have tried to use the very ship itself as a kind of last message. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873756940955163469.post-21789160459448658802016-10-18T22:19:35.461-07:002016-10-18T22:19:35.461-07:00This story of the black men "(...)Before the ...This story of the black men "(...)Before the Captain took him down into his Cabin he told this Innuit to take a look over to the land, the Captain pointing out to him the exact spot where there was a big Tupik (tent). The Captain asked him if he saw the tent, & the Innuit told him he did. Then the Captain told him that black men, such as he had just seen, lived there, & that neither he (this Innuit) nor any of his people must ever go there. After the Innuit had received the presents that the Captain made him, he left the ship & went home; & he would never go to the ship again because of the frightful looking black men that lived down in the Coal hole." Does this no establish a relation between the place where a ship was located and the 'tent'... in Terror Bay? And maybe explain why the inuits were scared of the place and kept silent on it for generations? Alainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873756940955163469.post-33305476054924482052016-10-17T11:20:40.015-07:002016-10-17T11:20:40.015-07:00beautiful shot of the Terror! ("La Terreur&qu...beautiful shot of the Terror! ("La Terreur" en Français). And yes, the perspective is very visible! I think we need to read again all the Inuit testimony, with the perspective that the broken up ship is the Erebus and the nicely sunk ship is the Terror (that which the inuit said they entered by making a hole in the hull, for instance). Maybe it can be reconciled with the testimony, considering the fuzz of XIXth century translation+transcription+interpretation? <br />Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16462213905204727229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873756940955163469.post-8372403581811413332016-10-15T17:57:18.433-07:002016-10-15T17:57:18.433-07:00The sudden sinking does seem at odds with the appa...The sudden sinking does seem at odds with the apparent condition of the wreck, but what struck me was that it was only a relatively "small" series of holes which sunk the Titanic. It might not have been proportionally much more for the Terror, esp. with inferior pumps.<br />I suppose the ship could have been manned and yet drifted to its location too. Ice conditions might have allowed for re-manning of the ship, but left it to the temperamental nature of the ice which pushed it to its location. Promising leads in the ice might have closed up preventing clear sailing.<br />It is going to be a long winter of piecing and re-arranging pieces of this puzzle.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08685387404989395574noreply@blogger.com