September 7, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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their lives in a desperate effort to save their fellow men.
Tonight Autolite honors this centennial with a dramatic recreation of
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Speaker 4 (02:06):
Picture this if you can. Christmas night.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Miles and miles of endless empty broken white ice, an
ice floe drifting somewhere in the vicinity of the seventy
third parallel north of the Arctic Circle, nothing but ice
that is nearly nothing. If you look carefully through the
winter night, you'll see two tiny dark blemishes, the figures
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of two men, one twisted in an unconscious heat as
our skipper, Jonathan Blake. The other figure Gerald Stewart, first
made me. It makes a good sorry picture civilized men
and a primitive wilderness of ice waiting helplessly for death.
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I a sorry picture. It's a far different picture you'd
have seen if you'd been.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
A part of the excited crowd.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Standing at the battery on the New York waterfront on
a June morning, the year eighteen fifty two.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
The moment of departure.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Ye, Lady Franklin, we must take the high tide. May
God and his great mercy protect you and your men
from the perils that you wait. You the men have
prepared for hadjhips. Lady Franklin, we.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Shall succeed by the other the sail than ending the
mystery of the terror.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Aye back to Aberdeen in time for a Christmas feast,
and we will prepare.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
A Christmas celebration.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Your men will never forget Captain.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
We're leaving for eliand next week. I crazy missus Juid
for all of.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
You, Thank you, Miss Quaker.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
I will stand many a watch out at sea, thinking
of last night, the ball thing and you that is
all of us.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Will I mean what my first maid is trying to
tell your niece, Lady Franklin, is how grateful the officers
and crew are for the.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Farewell ball you held in their honor last night. I'm
the grateful one. Captain Blake, please bring them all home safely.
Oh come now, Lady Franklin, don't need boy.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Yessica's a sturdy ship and the men are in good
health and lofty spirits will be.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Back by Christmas. You'll see title change. We must be
on our way then, goodbye and good luck. Captain. Bye,
Lady Franklin's Craig craw Goodbye, Captain Blake. Goodbye, mister Stewart,
god speed, thank you.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
We shall see you in habity in Christmas week.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Let's get aboard, mister Stewart. Yes, bye, Lady Franklin.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Dokey, yes, sir.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Drop the gangway, yes, sir, I'll handle there, mooring station master,
story sir, and pass the orders.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Cast off, I said, Oh and what call wallet fool?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
What all three and.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Four four.
Speaker 8 (05:17):
Under? Waste it?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Hi? Well, mister Stuart.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Fill your eyes on the side of New York. The
last of it you'll be saying, was some time to come.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Hi, good long.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Time, I am saying.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
As the Jessica moved slowly to the outer harbor, I
watched a tiny, delicate white dot in the crowd at
before she stood there beside Lady Franklin waiting, and I
watched until the morning fog erased the site of the
New York Waterfront. Aside from the ship's log I have
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decided to keep a running account of this voids. This
account will be transferred to a watertight jar and throne
in food Currents should any sudden disaster occur. The first
three weeks of navigating north were merely a matter of
settling down to ship's routine. On June thirtieth, after Officer's Mass,
we sighted Point Farewell on the Greenland coast. The time
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had come for the captain to read a letter of
instruction given to him by Lady Franklin.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Eh, Captain Blake, I am sure you will do all
that any man can in discovering the fate of my husband,
Sir John Franklin and his two ships, the Erebus and Terror.
But my only fear is that you might sacrifice your
lives in the unknown regions of the Arctic. Therefore, let
me state that, above all else, the preservation of the
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lives of you and your heroic companions is more.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Important to me than the purpose of your journey.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
A god in his great mercy, preserve you all from
harm amidst the perils which you are Bestore you to
us safely and in health, as well as honor. You'll
see you and attached friend Jane Franklin. These are the
only written instructions I have, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Now, then, mister Stewart, the map is, yes, sir, well.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
There it is, gentlemen, the most recent Admiralty map of
the Arctic regions that we are a brooking a. It's
almost completely blank, I'm mister Halliday, thousands of miles of
uncharted wild.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
And somewhere in that frozen countress that John Franklin and
his men vanished eye.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Our search will begin tomorrow when we drop Anchor and Godhab,
We'll pick up our ice pilot, mister Patrick Hanson's some
additional supplies, and then make.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
For the Arctic Circle. Arctic Circle sounds like the air
of the world. A Stewart, eh, A little frightening too.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
You frightened this holiday, ivo you. I had respect to
Stewarts fare what lies before?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Captain?
Speaker 5 (07:57):
I was just thinking if Franklin was looking for the
Northwest passage, she'd probably make an approach through uh Here,
through Lancaster Sound. Ah, and he must have passed Pond's
day here, and according to our information, the Eskimos to
CON's day, they might have seen his ship center lank.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
As the sound.
Speaker 9 (08:17):
If they did, then we'll have something to go by.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I hope mister Hanson understands the Eskimo dialects. They can
tell us much.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
I don't see how we can cover all this territory
and get back by Christmas.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
Captain.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
We have no choice, mister Stewart.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
If we get caught beyond the Arctic circle after the
summer months, we may never get back. Never I In
the winter, the seas are covered with great ice loads.
Once a ship is frozen in those latitudes, it'll stay
there until the summer low. You can't imagine the horrors
we'd endure in an Arctic winter, stylity, are you?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I suppose not.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Franklin and his men were probably frozen in for the winter,
and we'll hear from again.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Exactly well, I'll give you a brief idea what when
for gentlemen. We'll know more after mister Hanson comes aboard.
Any questions, I have nothing but questions, Captain.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I wish I had the answer Stewart.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Noon the next day we dropped anchor in the harbor.
Had got up here.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
We would take on coal, additional weather clothing, dogs and
Eskimo drivers, and mister Hanson, our ice pilot, got it
was nothing more than a few huts of the naff
and Bay Trading Company, And as we prepared to go ashore,
our longboat suddenly appeared alongside.
Speaker 8 (09:36):
Blake.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
I am Patrick Hanson, your ice pilot, Sir, you were about.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
To send a boat ashore for you, Miss Hanson.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
No time for that, Captain.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
We planned on picking up supplies and dal they brought them.
Speaker 8 (09:46):
They're in the boat.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Well, what's the rice, mister Hanson.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Oh, this is girl Stewart, my first mate.
Speaker 9 (09:51):
You've never been in New York before, mister Stewart, No,
take my word for it. You better get up there.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
And they got the summer d you bet all right.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
So we run into a little summer ice that Jessica's
prepared for that. Yuh.
Speaker 9 (10:03):
She loops like good strong ship. Hey, you've never seen
iron ship up here before. The steam engine too.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
That's about all that.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Jessica has the additional iron plates across the hull, as
well as added.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Bracing Fort Chip and the forward ten feet.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Of the bow is solid iron. And raise the shop
at the edge. What do you think that'll do to
your ice, mister Hanson?
Speaker 9 (10:24):
Eight And you see what the ice can do you
to a ship, even an iron ship.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Mister Stewart and mister Hanson, you received my letters and
you made inquiries about the Erebus, and Terror dave us here.
They couldn't get dogs, so they headed for Porn's Bay
across Baffron Bay Atroit. Just as we thought, mister Halliday,
get those supplies aboard, then prepare the ship.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
See right away at once, Stut.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
You can chart a course for us. We'll cross the
Arctic Circle next, and on the Pond's Bay.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
We set it north by northwest course, leaving the last
outpost of civilizations and hinders, and crossed the Great bat
and day on July fourth, we crossed the Arctic Circle
without ceremony. Then we had ice freezing on deck in
the rigging. A day later we saw our first floating iceberg.
For this time of year, we should not have seen
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either one.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
From Godab to Pond's.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Day six and a half days perfect calm. Upon landing,
we found a small contention of Vesquimos, but nothing else.
They seemed hostile and would give us no information. Then,
as we were preparing to return to the Jessica, one
of the natives, a girl, rushed from one of the
huts and down to the beach.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Oky hoky, Oh, what she's saying.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
I'm not sure, our captain. Look, she is something in
her hand. She wants us to look at it.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
It's a small US button.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
From a naval uniform.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
She's you're traded for some sewing needles.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Gallaga.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
What does she mean by that, Sir? She can't to say.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Man's name, Gallaga, Joseph Gallagher, Steward, is that name?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Monster John's Crules?
Speaker 5 (12:22):
I'm looking so, yes, Yes, it's here, Quartermaster Joseph Gallagher.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
They've been here.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
I better get back to the ship. Man looks like
a gale brewing letter. Keep the button, Steward, Man, you give.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Her the needles too.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
After leaving CON's Day, two months passed without incident. Then
we entered Lancaster Sound and approached the scarcely charted islands
along Darrow Straight. There we be in great mountains of
floating ice, and we had only a few hours of
twilight each day we crossed the seventy fifth parallel and
north into Wellington Channel to Bathist Island, the last of the.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Charted islands on my maps.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Then on September tenth, weather change northwest gale, sleet and
heavy fogs that forced us to a bare crawl, and
even worse mammoth ice floes that closed in all around us. I,
mister Stuart, keep an eye on the tempertu, I am sir, hi,
I did bomasaid Stobo at six degrees sleech.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
You've been getting smaller all the.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Time, Captain, the temperature is still dropping ten above zero.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Or do you think of this lead Hanson?
Speaker 9 (13:43):
I think maybe the bit of back old here, back.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Out, take a look of stern anser back out where
Captain orders it on a willer respun sixplosive.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I the leaders get too smaller.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Captain, I II.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Well, the Arctic seems to be closing down on us
on all counts.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
The wall that the lead moved in closer until a
man could jump to the ice from either side of
the ship, And then the Jessica was cutting through the
ice making her own leave, and slowly we lost the leaf.
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Finally the ship gave up to the ice.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Frozen in, though I stop engines, mister Stewart, guess it.
Speaker 9 (14:47):
Hey, Captain Blake, looks like they can forget about looking
for so young frank And in his ships. Now did
we frozen in? We're going to have to look out
for our own lives.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
You bet.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
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Speaker 4 (17:00):
Spend September tenth, eighteen fifty two.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Unless a miracle occurred, we were frozen in the Arctic
for the rest of the winter months. A sea of
ice surrounded us, and the ship took on a starboard
list from the pressure of the floe. Rations were cutting food,
water and coal consumption. Furious gales came and went, and
there were more freezing temperatures, often as low as thirty
five below.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
The doctor was a busy man.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Nearly all hands suffered from frostbite, money from Gangren. Conditions
aboard that Jessica were deplorable. I thought they couldn't get worse.
October came November December, and we thought of home in
the holidays, and of Lady Franklin and missus Craycroft sitting
alone at the Christmas feast that was to be held
in our honor.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
On Christmas Day, the cook outdid himself.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
We had a feast aboard the Jessica on the last
of the salt pork and beef. The last of the
also failed and minced meat. The cook made pies and
we had us a celebration. Christmas Day eighteen fifty two.
Man Man, the Captain has a word to say.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
I dropped below to offer you my greetings on this holiday,
and we wish you are much happier Christmas next year.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
Nice night, ohly, oh.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Is Christmas Eve eighteen fifty three.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
One year later, we're still frozen in Summer came and
passed without an appreciable rice in temperature and the ice
failed and break up and living on pemican occasionally bare
meat and seal blubber.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
No more lime juice. This means scurvy.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
The year also saw the loss of eleven men, the
doctor and the ice pilot Hanson among them, two in
a chase for the polar their three from scurvy and
the rest from gangrene. Most of the men have frostbaye
our second Christmas in the Arctic. The flow that holds
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the ship is drifting Salve down Peel Sound. We saw
the shores of King William's Island, and the captain sent
Halliday and three men on sledge to look for food
depots or rock care in anything. They returned today.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
How'd you find it, Halliday?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Then a care?
Speaker 9 (19:46):
We also found empty Pemmican cans, and fit's a ship's timber.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Sure listen to this. It was written by Franklin himself.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Eighteen fifty one latitude sixty nine degrees longitude ninety eight west,
HMS Terror sank when ice broke. Erebus still frozen in
beset since April twelfth, eighteen fifty We are deserting the Erebus,
attempting overland march to Backfish River to Hudson's Bay.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
If unheard from when this found, we must be considered lost.
Sir John Franklin, Captain HMS Erebus.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
We've found that we came for I they're all dead.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
If something doesn't happen pretty soon, we'll be dead too.
Thanks for a very merry Christmas, Captain, captain, the ice breaking.
How long do you think our iron plates will last
against this?
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Captain?
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Great cracks open to the ice, and then out of
the water through the openings another great mountain. The light
would rise great slier for even one hundred yards wide.
Shut it up ended and sank into the churning water
all around this great jacket fingers of ice.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Christ the door, oh ab.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Do it into tops. We're going out on the ice
tool desert. I could see a wisdom jarring, who's under him?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Suddenly the Jaffica.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Red sharply throwing the clock.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
The last found in my ears was out of the
jefficat carrick loose from the ice.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Slowly I became aware of pain in my leg, then
of movement. I opened my eyes. The captain was helping
me to walk.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
I looked into the winter darkness for the familiar sight
of the Jessica.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
I saw nothing, nothing but ice.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Skipper, we're faring better that What about?
Speaker 6 (22:04):
The ship gone down? And they the rest of the
men I don't know, gone. The floe separated most of
them were on the other side. Where are we walking to?
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
We walked on and on, climbing, jaggered hubboks of ice
and falling through thin spots.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Legs got wet frows.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
We beat beat the ice off, and we we kept walking,
walking in circle, slew.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
The Arctic night, endless cycles. We'll the rest of it.
Ah rest, sleep a bit in the ice, warm, comforting ice.
Don't don't, don't sleep.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
My eyes grew heavy.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
I craved sleep, but this sleep was to die.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I was ready.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
In the sky over the horizon a star. The night
was overcast.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
There were no other stars, just just one.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Bright in the distance.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I could see it.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
I stood It was still the hair, a bright star
over the horizon.
Speaker 10 (23:46):
Captain, on your feet, Captain, we're going to keep walking
walking He air that wait for it, that that star.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
We walked on slowly. I carried the skipper unconscious.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Now, oh, what could it be? There are no lights
of the Arctic noe stars through the overcast. But we
kept moving and the star came closer. I couldn't believe
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what suddenly appeared through the darkness. Directly beneath the star
was the vague outline of a ship.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
A ship mates, mates, help help me.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
He's coming out of it. Stewart, Stewart, the.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Ship I so.
Speaker 11 (25:02):
Starky, Holladay. I in the flesh. I saw a ship.
I know you're on it, Beeper. Where did it come from?
Speaker 9 (25:15):
Nothing, Jessica, I know it's the Erebus, one of franklin ship's,
the one they deserted.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Erebus. Where did it come from?
Speaker 8 (25:26):
Well?
Speaker 9 (25:26):
There we were, all of us except you and the captain,
lying on that floe. After Jessica went down, ready to die,
just as we thought you had. And then, just as
graceful as you please, to see a ship drifting slowly
out of the fog through the broken eyes.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Right to us.
Speaker 9 (25:41):
But the captain left him out on the right. We
brought him aboard them. Pretty soon we'll be on our
way home. Oh, the ice is open. We can get out.
Arabis will take us back.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Now. How is that for a Christmas surprise?
Speaker 4 (25:56):
I followed this star?
Speaker 7 (25:58):
What he's sleeping?
Speaker 2 (26:02):
What was that?
Speaker 7 (26:03):
He said?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
He followed the star?
Speaker 9 (26:06):
Ay, he must have seen that lantern we hung from
the mainmast. Mistook it for a star. Oh saved his
life and the captain being that it's still Christmas. I
guess you could call it a miracle sakey I.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
I guess you could at that, sir, m.
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Speaker 4 (02:06):
Picture this if you can. Christmas night.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Miles and miles of endless empty broken white ice, an
ice floe drifting somewhere in the vicinity of the seventy
third parallel north of the Arctic Circle, nothing but ice
that is nearly nothing. If you look carefully through the
winter night, you'll see two tiny dark blemishes, the figures
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of two men, one twisted in an unconscious heat as
our skipper, Jonathan Blake. The other figure Gerald Stewart, first
made me. It makes a good sorry picture civilized men
and a primitive wilderness of ice waiting helplessly for death.
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I a sorry picture. It's a far different picture you'd
have seen if you'd been.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
A part of the excited crowd.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Standing at the battery on the New York waterfront on
a June morning, the year eighteen fifty two.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
The moment of departure.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Ye, Lady Franklin, we must take the high tide. May
God and his great mercy protect you and your men
from the perils that you wait. You the men have
prepared for hadjhips. Lady Franklin, we.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Shall succeed by the other the sail than ending the
mystery of the terror.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Aye back to Aberdeen in time for a Christmas feast,
and we will prepare.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
A Christmas celebration.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Your men will never forget Captain.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
We're leaving for eliand next week. I crazy missus Juid
for all of.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
You, Thank you, Miss Quaker.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
I will stand many a watch out at sea, thinking
of last night, the ball thing and you that is
all of us.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Will I mean what my first maid is trying to
tell your niece, Lady Franklin, is how grateful the officers
and crew are for the.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Farewell ball you held in their honor last night. I'm
the grateful one. Captain Blake, please bring them all home safely.
Oh come now, Lady Franklin, don't need boy.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Yessica's a sturdy ship and the men are in good
health and lofty spirits will be.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Back by Christmas. You'll see title change. We must be
on our way then, goodbye and good luck. Captain. Bye,
Lady Franklin's Craig craw Goodbye, Captain Blake. Goodbye, mister Stewart,
god speed, thank you.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
We shall see you in habity in Christmas week.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Let's get aboard, mister Stewart. Yes, bye, Lady Franklin.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Dokey, yes, sir.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Drop the gangway, yes, sir, I'll handle there, mooring station master,
story sir, and pass the orders.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Cast off, I said, Oh and what call wallet fool?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
What all three and.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Four four.
Speaker 8 (05:17):
Under? Waste it?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Hi? Well, mister Stuart.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Fill your eyes on the side of New York. The
last of it you'll be saying, was some time to come.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Hi, good long.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Time, I am saying.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
As the Jessica moved slowly to the outer harbor, I
watched a tiny, delicate white dot in the crowd at
before she stood there beside Lady Franklin waiting, and I
watched until the morning fog erased the site of the
New York Waterfront. Aside from the ship's log I have
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decided to keep a running account of this voids. This
account will be transferred to a watertight jar and throne
in food Currents should any sudden disaster occur. The first
three weeks of navigating north were merely a matter of
settling down to ship's routine. On June thirtieth, after Officer's Mass,
we sighted Point Farewell on the Greenland coast. The time
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had come for the captain to read a letter of
instruction given to him by Lady Franklin.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Eh, Captain Blake, I am sure you will do all
that any man can in discovering the fate of my husband,
Sir John Franklin and his two ships, the Erebus and Terror.
But my only fear is that you might sacrifice your
lives in the unknown regions of the Arctic. Therefore, let
me state that, above all else, the preservation of the
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lives of you and your heroic companions is more.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Important to me than the purpose of your journey.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
A god in his great mercy, preserve you all from
harm amidst the perils which you are Bestore you to
us safely and in health, as well as honor. You'll
see you and attached friend Jane Franklin. These are the
only written instructions I have, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Now, then, mister Stewart, the map is, yes, sir, well.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
There it is, gentlemen, the most recent Admiralty map of
the Arctic regions that we are a brooking a. It's
almost completely blank, I'm mister Halliday, thousands of miles of
uncharted wild.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
And somewhere in that frozen countress that John Franklin and
his men vanished eye.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Our search will begin tomorrow when we drop Anchor and Godhab,
We'll pick up our ice pilot, mister Patrick Hanson's some
additional supplies, and then make.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
For the Arctic Circle. Arctic Circle sounds like the air
of the world. A Stewart, eh, A little frightening too.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
You frightened this holiday, ivo you. I had respect to
Stewarts fare what lies before?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Captain?
Speaker 5 (07:57):
I was just thinking if Franklin was looking for the
Northwest passage, she'd probably make an approach through uh Here,
through Lancaster Sound. Ah, and he must have passed Pond's
day here, and according to our information, the Eskimos to
CON's day, they might have seen his ship center lank.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
As the sound.
Speaker 9 (08:17):
If they did, then we'll have something to go by.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I hope mister Hanson understands the Eskimo dialects. They can
tell us much.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
I don't see how we can cover all this territory
and get back by Christmas.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
Captain.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
We have no choice, mister Stewart.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
If we get caught beyond the Arctic circle after the
summer months, we may never get back. Never I In
the winter, the seas are covered with great ice loads.
Once a ship is frozen in those latitudes, it'll stay
there until the summer low. You can't imagine the horrors
we'd endure in an Arctic winter, stylity, are you?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I suppose not.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Franklin and his men were probably frozen in for the winter,
and we'll hear from again.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Exactly well, I'll give you a brief idea what when
for gentlemen. We'll know more after mister Hanson comes aboard.
Any questions, I have nothing but questions, Captain.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I wish I had the answer Stewart.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Noon the next day we dropped anchor in the harbor.
Had got up here.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
We would take on coal, additional weather clothing, dogs and
Eskimo drivers, and mister Hanson, our ice pilot, got it
was nothing more than a few huts of the naff
and Bay Trading Company, And as we prepared to go ashore,
our longboat suddenly appeared alongside.
Speaker 8 (09:36):
Blake.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
I am Patrick Hanson, your ice pilot, Sir, you were about.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
To send a boat ashore for you, Miss Hanson.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
No time for that, Captain.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
We planned on picking up supplies and dal they brought them.
Speaker 8 (09:46):
They're in the boat.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Well, what's the rice, mister Hanson.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Oh, this is girl Stewart, my first mate.
Speaker 9 (09:51):
You've never been in New York before, mister Stewart, No,
take my word for it. You better get up there.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
And they got the summer d you bet all right.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
So we run into a little summer ice that Jessica's
prepared for that. Yuh.
Speaker 9 (10:03):
She loops like good strong ship. Hey, you've never seen
iron ship up here before. The steam engine too.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
That's about all that.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Jessica has the additional iron plates across the hull, as
well as added.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Bracing Fort Chip and the forward ten feet.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Of the bow is solid iron. And raise the shop
at the edge. What do you think that'll do to
your ice, mister Hanson?
Speaker 9 (10:24):
Eight And you see what the ice can do you
to a ship, even an iron ship.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Mister Stewart and mister Hanson, you received my letters and
you made inquiries about the Erebus, and Terror dave us here.
They couldn't get dogs, so they headed for Porn's Bay
across Baffron Bay Atroit. Just as we thought, mister Halliday,
get those supplies aboard, then prepare the ship.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
See right away at once, Stut.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
You can chart a course for us. We'll cross the
Arctic Circle next, and on the Pond's Bay.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
We set it north by northwest course, leaving the last
outpost of civilizations and hinders, and crossed the Great bat
and day on July fourth, we crossed the Arctic Circle
without ceremony. Then we had ice freezing on deck in
the rigging. A day later we saw our first floating iceberg.
For this time of year, we should not have seen
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either one.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
From Godab to Pond's.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Day six and a half days perfect calm. Upon landing,
we found a small contention of Vesquimos, but nothing else.
They seemed hostile and would give us no information. Then,
as we were preparing to return to the Jessica, one
of the natives, a girl, rushed from one of the
huts and down to the beach.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Oky hoky, Oh, what she's saying.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
I'm not sure, our captain. Look, she is something in
her hand. She wants us to look at it.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
It's a small US button.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
From a naval uniform.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
She's you're traded for some sewing needles.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Gallaga.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
What does she mean by that, Sir? She can't to say.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Man's name, Gallaga, Joseph Gallagher, Steward, is that name?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Monster John's Crules?
Speaker 5 (12:22):
I'm looking so, yes, Yes, it's here, Quartermaster Joseph Gallagher.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
They've been here.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
I better get back to the ship. Man looks like
a gale brewing letter. Keep the button, Steward, Man, you give.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Her the needles too.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
After leaving CON's Day, two months passed without incident. Then
we entered Lancaster Sound and approached the scarcely charted islands
along Darrow Straight. There we be in great mountains of
floating ice, and we had only a few hours of
twilight each day we crossed the seventy fifth parallel and
north into Wellington Channel to Bathist Island, the last of the.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Charted islands on my maps.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Then on September tenth, weather change northwest gale, sleet and
heavy fogs that forced us to a bare crawl, and
even worse mammoth ice floes that closed in all around us. I,
mister Stuart, keep an eye on the tempertu, I am sir, hi,
I did bomasaid Stobo at six degrees sleech.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
You've been getting smaller all the.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Time, Captain, the temperature is still dropping ten above zero.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Or do you think of this lead Hanson?
Speaker 9 (13:43):
I think maybe the bit of back old here, back.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Out, take a look of stern anser back out where
Captain orders it on a willer respun sixplosive.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I the leaders get too smaller.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Captain, I II.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Well, the Arctic seems to be closing down on us
on all counts.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
The wall that the lead moved in closer until a
man could jump to the ice from either side of
the ship, And then the Jessica was cutting through the
ice making her own leave, and slowly we lost the leaf.
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Finally the ship gave up to the ice.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Frozen in, though I stop engines, mister Stewart, guess it.
Speaker 9 (14:47):
Hey, Captain Blake, looks like they can forget about looking
for so young frank And in his ships. Now did
we frozen in? We're going to have to look out
for our own lives.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
You bet.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
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Speaker 4 (17:00):
Spend September tenth, eighteen fifty two.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Unless a miracle occurred, we were frozen in the Arctic
for the rest of the winter months. A sea of
ice surrounded us, and the ship took on a starboard
list from the pressure of the floe. Rations were cutting food,
water and coal consumption. Furious gales came and went, and
there were more freezing temperatures, often as low as thirty
five below.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
The doctor was a busy man.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Nearly all hands suffered from frostbite, money from Gangren. Conditions
aboard that Jessica were deplorable. I thought they couldn't get worse.
October came November December, and we thought of home in
the holidays, and of Lady Franklin and missus Craycroft sitting
alone at the Christmas feast that was to be held
in our honor.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
On Christmas Day, the cook outdid himself.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
We had a feast aboard the Jessica on the last
of the salt pork and beef. The last of the
also failed and minced meat. The cook made pies and
we had us a celebration. Christmas Day eighteen fifty two.
Man Man, the Captain has a word to say.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
I dropped below to offer you my greetings on this holiday,
and we wish you are much happier Christmas next year.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
Nice night, ohly, oh.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Is Christmas Eve eighteen fifty three.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
One year later, we're still frozen in Summer came and
passed without an appreciable rice in temperature and the ice
failed and break up and living on pemican occasionally bare
meat and seal blubber.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
No more lime juice. This means scurvy.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
The year also saw the loss of eleven men, the
doctor and the ice pilot Hanson among them, two in
a chase for the polar their three from scurvy and
the rest from gangrene. Most of the men have frostbaye
our second Christmas in the Arctic. The flow that holds
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the ship is drifting Salve down Peel Sound. We saw
the shores of King William's Island, and the captain sent
Halliday and three men on sledge to look for food
depots or rock care in anything. They returned today.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
How'd you find it, Halliday?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Then a care?
Speaker 9 (19:46):
We also found empty Pemmican cans, and fit's a ship's timber.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Sure listen to this. It was written by Franklin himself.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Eighteen fifty one latitude sixty nine degrees longitude ninety eight west,
HMS Terror sank when ice broke. Erebus still frozen in
beset since April twelfth, eighteen fifty We are deserting the Erebus,
attempting overland march to Backfish River to Hudson's Bay.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
If unheard from when this found, we must be considered lost.
Sir John Franklin, Captain HMS Erebus.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
We've found that we came for I they're all dead.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
If something doesn't happen pretty soon, we'll be dead too.
Thanks for a very merry Christmas, Captain, captain, the ice breaking.
How long do you think our iron plates will last
against this?
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Captain?
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Great cracks open to the ice, and then out of
the water through the openings another great mountain. The light
would rise great slier for even one hundred yards wide.
Shut it up ended and sank into the churning water
all around this great jacket fingers of ice.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Christ the door, oh ab.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Do it into tops. We're going out on the ice
tool desert. I could see a wisdom jarring, who's under him?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Suddenly the Jaffica.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Red sharply throwing the clock.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
The last found in my ears was out of the
jefficat carrick loose from the ice.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Slowly I became aware of pain in my leg, then
of movement. I opened my eyes. The captain was helping
me to walk.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
I looked into the winter darkness for the familiar sight
of the Jessica.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
I saw nothing, nothing but ice.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Skipper, we're faring better that What about?
Speaker 6 (22:04):
The ship gone down? And they the rest of the
men I don't know, gone. The floe separated most of
them were on the other side. Where are we walking to?
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
We walked on and on, climbing, jaggered hubboks of ice
and falling through thin spots.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Legs got wet frows.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
We beat beat the ice off, and we we kept walking,
walking in circle, slew.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
The Arctic night, endless cycles. We'll the rest of it.
Ah rest, sleep a bit in the ice, warm, comforting ice.
Don't don't, don't sleep.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
My eyes grew heavy.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
I craved sleep, but this sleep was to die.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I was ready.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
In the sky over the horizon a star. The night
was overcast.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
There were no other stars, just just one.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Bright in the distance.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I could see it.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
I stood It was still the hair, a bright star
over the horizon.
Speaker 10 (23:46):
Captain, on your feet, Captain, we're going to keep walking
walking He air that wait for it, that that star.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
We walked on slowly. I carried the skipper unconscious.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Now, oh, what could it be? There are no lights
of the Arctic noe stars through the overcast. But we
kept moving and the star came closer. I couldn't believe
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what suddenly appeared through the darkness. Directly beneath the star
was the vague outline of a ship.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
A ship mates, mates, help help me.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
He's coming out of it. Stewart, Stewart, the.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Ship I so.
Speaker 11 (25:02):
Starky, Holladay. I in the flesh. I saw a ship.
I know you're on it, Beeper. Where did it come from?
Speaker 9 (25:15):
Nothing, Jessica, I know it's the Erebus, one of franklin ship's,
the one they deserted.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Erebus. Where did it come from?
Speaker 8 (25:26):
Well?
Speaker 9 (25:26):
There we were, all of us except you and the captain,
lying on that floe. After Jessica went down, ready to die,
just as we thought you had. And then, just as
graceful as you please, to see a ship drifting slowly
out of the fog through the broken eyes.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Right to us.
Speaker 9 (25:41):
But the captain left him out on the right. We
brought him aboard them. Pretty soon we'll be on our
way home. Oh, the ice is open. We can get out.
Arabis will take us back.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Now. How is that for a Christmas surprise?
Speaker 4 (25:56):
I followed this star?
Speaker 7 (25:58):
What he's sleeping?
Speaker 2 (26:02):
What was that?
Speaker 7 (26:03):
He said?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
He followed the star?
Speaker 9 (26:06):
Ay, he must have seen that lantern we hung from
the mainmast. Mistook it for a star. Oh saved his
life and the captain being that it's still Christmas. I
guess you could call it a miracle sakey I.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
I guess you could at that, sir, m.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
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Elliot Lewis, with music composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted
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by Lud Bluskin. Arctic Rescue was written for Suspense by
Gus C.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Bays.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
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Of us on Suspense.
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Of you a very merry Christmas.
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