Canadian team finds Franklin ship on seabed – video

Wednesday, 10 Sep 2014

Researchers have located one of the two ships from the 1845 Franklin expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage. Unveiling imagery of Sir John Franklin's missing vessel, the Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, called the discovery a 'great historic event'

Wednesday, 10 Sep 2014

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