The higher levels of lead in the hair of the dead at Beechey Island could have been caused by them living mainly on a liquid diet at the end of their lives. Due to chemical processes, the leaking of lead from the solder would have been limited. […] À lire aussi : Covid-19, le vaccin d’Oxford provoque une réponse immunitaire […]. En analysant des retranscriptions de témoignages de chasseurs Inuits, il a remarqué une description de symptômes présentés par certains membres d’équipages rencontrés sur la banquise. D’après les recherches du Pr Russel Taichman, un professeur de dentisterie de l’université du Michigan, il est fort probable que les passagers des deux vaisseaux commandés par Franklin aient souffert de la maladie d’Addison, une affection qui favorise notamment la perte de poids. Consequently, kingdoms around the world launched lofty seafaring quests to find it. Those bodies showed signs of malnutrition, murder, and cannibalism. The archaeologists stood back in shock and awe. Four years later, Scottish explorer John Rae met a group of Inuits in Pelly Bay who were in possession of some of the missing sailors’ belongings. You can check out the History Feed section where I publish articles like this Stay safe! Other contemporary expeditions also partly relied on tinned foods, without ending in disaster. These reports also included information about cannibalism among the seamen. Malheureusement, tout l’équipage finira par mourir en chemin au cours de cette tentative pour retrouver la civilisation. Why the sailors were discharged remains unclear, though it could have been due to his stringent rules. Beattie needed tissue to find out when the lead entered the bodies, preferably hair or nails. Mais « à l’époque, la cause principale de la maladie d’Addison était la tuberculose », souligne le Pr Taichman. First message May 28th, 1847: H.M.S ships Erebu and Terror wintered in the Ice in lat. There, on an uninhabited stretch of land called Beechey Island, the search party found relics of a primitive camp and the graves of sailors John Hartnell, John Torrington, and William Braine. Bref, il aura fallu des années et un très grand nombre d’expéditions pour enfin repérer les épaves des deux navires de l’expédition Franklin. The expedition sailed on 19 May 1845, calling at Stromness on Orkney, and at islands in West Greenland’s Disko Bay. Both shipwrecks appeared in surprising locations, away from where they were left stuck in the ice in 1848. Franklin et la totalité de son équipage ont disparu… Ils ont été recherchés par plus de 30 expéditions depuis 1850. It reflects a “whole of life” exposure, a sink if you like. By April 1848, 9 officers and 15 seamen had died, according to the note mentioned above.