#sir james clark ross

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Reading anything about Arctic explorers you're just sitting there like

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Some of your hcs about less popular terror characters? A question, though not that weird of one

My good friend @georges-chambers! Thank you so much!

This is a fun one... I don't tend to dig as deep into the outer reaches of the muster lists as you do (it's one of the things I really admire about you), but I do have some big thoughts about characters who have barely any lines.

Henry Thomas Dundas Le Vesconte:

I've told you this before in private messages, but upon rewatch, I've discovered a sort of... characterization anchor? for my headcanons about our favorite casually mutinous, grey-haired Victorian babe—namely, that no matter how little he respects some of the people above him on the chain of command, he has a deep respect for the existence of the chain of command and the structures and regulations of the Royal Navy. He may not think Crozier or Little are fit for command, but he's very aware that they outrank him, and his actions and behaviors reflect this.

My unpopular headcanon is that Little didn't kill him. I don't know how this got to be considered almost a given fact by the fandom. I like the concept, but I don't know if Little would have been able to bring himself to do that.

Sir James Clark Ross:

This is probably a common headcanon, but I ship him and Francis Crozier as platonic AND romantic AND a secret third thing. I just know they were doing Left Hand Of Darkness activities on the Antarctic ice. Fellas, is it gay to lick the ice from your buddy's eyelid and lashes when his eye has frozen shut? How about if you've found the thing you don't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time... together?

Thanks, @georges-chambers!

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When you’re at your most insecure and vulnerable in a new relationship… and then the Ex shows up

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Happy very probable birthday to Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier (1796–c. 1848)! 🧭

Captain Crozier was distinguished for devotion to his duties as an officer, zeal for the advancement of science, and for the untiring assiduity and exactness of his magnetic and other observations. The Transactions of the Royal Society, as well as the published results of the Antarctic Expedition, bear ample testimony to his diligence and ability.

— Obituary notice of the Royal Society, 1854

In conclusion we may remark, that Captain Crozier was of an amiable and cheerful disposition, and his unbending integrity and truthfulness invariably won the affection and respect of those he commanded as well as the admiration and firm friendship of all those officers under whom he had served.

— A Memoir of the Late Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier, R.N., F.R.S., F.R.A.S., of H.M.S. Terror, 1859

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James Clark Ross to Edward Sabine, 27 September 1840:

We labor hard at our work from Monday morning till Saturday night I never quit the Observatory - Sunday we dine with Franklin who continues to pay us two visits every day - morning & evening. It is most delightful to see the enthusiasm with which he enters into all our views - of the people here we know but little except their great desire to be kind to us from the multitude of invitations and offers of assistance in every way - all of which we of course decline, for going out to parties and making observations are not compatible with each other & if once commenced no one could tell where it would stop - but where I stick to my work, others cannot expect much relaxation; but indeed I have no occasion to ever surmise that there is the least disposition on their parts to relax - for truly their zeal and enthusiasm seems rather to increase than diminish and as regards all the officers and crews I cannot tell you how happy I am - Crozier is as ever most devoted to the cause & indefatigable in executing whatever I desire to have done -

(Source)

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“No James. You don’t have to worry about the other James”

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War of 1812 Wednesday: A Glorious First of June

I periodically bring up Sir John Franklin’s status as a War of 1812 veteran, but I have assumed that it’s more of a piece of trivia than anything else—a footnote in his career even if he took a bullet to his shoulder as part of raiding party at the Battle of Lake Borgne. 

Franklin was a midshipman on HMS Intrepid during the circumnavigation of Australia, he was at the Battle of Trafalgar in the thick of the action (narrowly missing a French sniper’s bullet), and of course he became famous for his polar exploits long before the 1845 Franklin Expedition. I didn’t think that Franklin would be dwelling much on the War of 1812, especially not late in his career in the 1840s. But I was wrong!

Invitation card to a ball aboard HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, hosted by James Clark Ross and Francis Crozier, 1841 (Derbyshire Record Office).

Sir John Franklin was Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen’s Land when Erebus and Terror wintered there in 1841, and of course he attended the ball. Although the date of 1st June appears to be a coincidence and not selected for any special significance, noted Franklinheads @explorersaremadeofhope @kljjfnotes​ and Olga Kimmins of The Thousandth Part brought it to my attention that it acquired a Glorious First of June title.

The usual “Glorious First of June” in the Royal Navy is the Fourth Battle of Ushant in 1794, but Sir John Franklin had a different battle in mind:

[all the company continued standing while the national anthem was performed by the full Band. The next toast in succession by Captain Ross was “His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor,” to which Sir John Franklin responded, by observing that the day set apart for the festive occasion by Captain Ross, was one that Englishmen might well be proud; it was the anniversary of one of the most splendid naval victories that adorned the pages of our history—it was a day rendered historical by the battle of the Shannon and Chesapeake—and it was also a day considered sacred to science by the discovery by the gallant officer who had proposed his health, of the North Magnetic Pole.]

Franklin hears the first of June and immediately goes to HMS SHANNON VS. USS CHESAPEAKE?! I was not expecting that at all, and have give Franklin more credit for his taste.

The celebrated engagement during which H.M.S. “Shannon” captured the American frigate “Chesapeake”, 1st June 1813, Thomas Whitcombe (Wikimedia Commons).

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I found this neat little bit in the first edition of “The Naval Service, or, Officer's Manual for Every Grade in his Majesty's Ships” where the author thanks both Sir John and James Ross for their contributions to the book. Sir John gave an essay on how to work a chronometer, and James Ross gave an essay on how to use a magnetic compass (he was, after all, one of two of the most leading experts in magnetic observations at the time, and we all know who the other guy was ;)