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#cornwall #sailors

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#the dali #sailors

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#antarctic #vernadsky base

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On Olga Kimmins' article "The Problem with Preconceived Notions, or Captain Crozier’s Adventures in Secondary Sources" [x]

A nice dismantling of the never-ending (and sometimes malicious) game of broken telephone. I keep thinking about this sentence though:

In Smith's case this can only be treated as the author’s private opinion, given that the solitary piece of evidence used to illustrate his point was Crozier’s refusal of the overall command on a single occasion in 1844, which cannot be used as a blanket statement for his entire career.

This is the only evaluation of Crozier's words, but Smith's foul also consists of taking Crozier's personal opinion and treating it as an objective 'proof of guilt' as well as not looking at the quote in its context. It's not a solitary piece of evidence or a momentary idea, but a snapshot of a continuing thought process that comes with its own structure of meaning.

Crozier discusses leadership in his letters of Dec 30 & 31 1844, and Jan 23 1845. From the second one: "I am in truth still [my emphasis] of opinion as to my own unfitness to lead, you on that subject as well as all others know my whole mind". He's referring to a similar situation in the past (tallies with JCR's mention of an earlier expedition command offer). It's Crozier's own conclusion – and an impression he'd spread among his circle.

So that 'just right for a second' concept itself is not something that has to be combated and eliminated. It's a valid topic from the post-Antarctic period, when balanced and evaluated within its own context. Crozier openly joined the 1845 expedition as a man who'd rather not lead, so it's not surprising that his colleagues mention it too (and the quotes describing Crozier during the Antarctic expedition aren't surprising either; it's an outsider's view of the dynamics between Ross and Crozier that had been in place for decades).

❌ -> "I'm a bad leader" -> never wanted to lead/is useless as an officer

✅ -> "I'm not suited to be a leader" -> what happened?

#francis rawdon moira crozier #also: • nugent doesn't belong in this litany of misdeeds #• battersby not the end of the line – surfaces in betts #• fluhmann's views are evident throughout #(m.j. ross calls it 'a convincing interpretation') #• stone's inane 'review' deserves stronger words

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Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh!

University of Galway's IMIRCE project is live. It's an archive of Irish emigrant letters and memoirs from North America – including a handful from Upper Canada, where Crozier's sister and brother lived.

William Campbell's letter from Oct 28, 1832 mentions James Ferguson (amazing prose style too).

William Simpson's 1836 and 1839 letters describe the local situation.

#francis rawdon moira crozier

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Going to Ikea Nunavut, need anything?

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That bowl (from a seaman's chest!) is nuts though.

#hms erebus

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"Terror is 24 metres below sea level, but Erebus is only 11m down, and that makes the latter our prime concern," said Moore. "We are going to concentrate on it and peel back its story layer by layer."

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#hms terror #hms erebus #the terror exploration 2045 #never mind the rising ocean temperatures #24m safe as houses #does anyone believe they'd be spending the same amount of time at the terror if the ships' situations were reversed

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Two Two-and-a-half unpublished accounts of the British Antarctic Expedition

Davis wrote a second letter, to Mrs. Stephen in Sydney, cribbing from the one he sent his sister, Emily. All three drawings are also included – & the scans show the collision diagram in colours.

you must follow the black for the Erebus and the red for the Terror

Find 10 differences.

Source | Transcript

More literature

#francis rawdon moira crozier #hms terror #james clark ross #hms erebus #antarctic

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On Captain F.R.M. Crozier's birth date and the Antarctic memo

(fully rewritten as a chronological overview with comments)

It's now established that Crozier's birthday is on Oct 17, and that they marked his posting's 'birthday' on Aug 16 1842. This leaves the memo. Interestingly, it cannot be tied to any of the Octobers. At sea, Crozier's only constantly celebrated 17 was Mar 17...

#francis rawdon moira crozier

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You know that scene in The Terror series where they're watching a tableau vivant of Ross and Crozier in the Antarctic?

Series' Crozier is real Crozier's tableau!Crozier

#francis rawdon moira crozier #the terror #this series caused as much damage as all the gammons

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On Franklin expedition letter book "May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth"

#francis rawdon moira crozier #everyone makes mistakes #but this here is indifference

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Cheers, Royal Museums Greenwich.

#at sea without tea #by tack

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On the article “Captain Francis Crozier and the Franklin Expedition Mystery”, kindly posted by @teacat12 [x]

“He made six journeys of discovery”, “Crozier sailed on three expeditions with the much respected Parry and even helped in an unsuccessful attempt to reach the North Pole in 1827” – Five, it’s Parry II & III plus North Pole (not Parry I, II & III plus the Pole); Antarctic; Franklin.

Fleet battles were a thing of the past when Crozier joined.

Mapping the Antarctica was not the primary goal of the Ross-Crozier expedition.

“They disappeared and were never seen again.” @paramaline

“After three years of entrapment” – They didn’t get trapped during the very first winter.

“Both ships were fully upright and in remarkably good condition.” – The Erebus was a bit draughty, I’d say.

“All the windows in Crozier’s cabin were shut.” – The door to his bedcabin was shut?

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Captain F.R.M. Crozier, R.N.

A biographical compendium and commentary

Date of birth – chronological overview of the path towards the discovery of Captain Crozier's birth date, analysis of the Antarctic memo, & evaluation of the status quo

Family – on Crozier's parents and siblings

Portrait – on a previously unknown painting

Career – with focus on the ships and captains, plus contemporary testimony

Parry – on the three voyages with W. Edward Parry, 1821-1827

Ross – on the British Antarctic Expedition (Ross-Crozier), 1839-1843

Flag made for Crozier in 1840

Collision between Erebus and Terror in 1842

Memoranda – on Crozier's Antarctic correspondence with Ross

Chronology of 1845 expedition leadership deliberations

Artefacts – letters and other items, directly connected to Crozier

On Crozier's loneliness

Technical transcripts of selected letters

Herbaria – on Crozier's plant and algae collections

Literature – useful links and brief reviews, with in-depth discussions of the newest publications

#francis rawdon moira crozier #hms terror #arctic #antarctic #irish explorers