John Franklin/Timelines

List of Franklin search expeditions

• 1848–1849, James Clark Ross in Investigator and Enterprise
• 1848–1851, John Richardson and John Rae overland expedition
• 1848–1851, Plover and Herald via Bering Strait
• 1849 William Penney (Captain) John Anstruther Goodsir (naturalist) in whaling vessel Advice
• 1850–1854, Robert McClure in Investigator via Bering Strait
• 1850–1855, Richard Collinson in Enterprise via Bering Strait
• 1850–1851, William Penny in Lady Franklin and Sophia
• 1850–1851, Horatio T. Austin in four-ship Royal Navy expedition
• 1850–1851, Sir John Ross in private expedition
• 1850, Charles Codrington Forsyth in Prince Albert, financed by Lady Franklin
• 1850–1851, Edwin J. De Haven in first Grinnell expedition
• 1851–1852, William Kennedy and Joseph René Bellot in Prince Albert, financed by Lady Franklin
• 1852–1854, Sir Edward Belcher in a five-ship Royal Navy expedition
• 1852, Edward Augustus Inglefield in Isabel, financed by Lady Franklin
• 1853–1855, Elisha Kent Kane in second Grinnell expedition
• 1853–1854, John Rae on behalf of the Hudson Bay Company
• 1857–1859, Francis Leopold McClintock in Fox, financed by Lady Franklin
• 1864–1869, Charles Francis Hall
• 1875, Allen Young in Pandora, in a private expedition
• 1876, Allen Young in Pandora, in a second private expedition which also took despatches to the expedition of Sir George Nares for the Admiralty
• 1878–1880, Frederick Schwatka, sponsored by the American Geographical Society