A little doom from 160 years ago.

[Doktor Howl]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100729/ap_on_re_ca/cn_canada_franklin_ship_found

TORONTO – Canadian archeologists have found a ship abandoned more than 150 years ago in the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage and which was lost in the search for the doomed expedition of Sir John Franklin, the head of the team said Wednesday.

Marc-Andre Bernier, Parks Canada's head of underwater archaeology, said the HMS Investigator, abandoned in the ice in 1853, was found in shallow water in Mercy Bay along the northern coast of Banks Island in Canada's western Arctic.

"The ship is standing upright in very good condition. It's standing in about 11 meters (36 feet) of water," he said. "This is definitely of the utmost importance. This is the ship that sailed the last leg of the Northwest Passage."

The Investigator was one of many American and British ships sent out to search for the HMS Erebus and the Terror, vessels commanded by Franklin in his ill-fated search for the Northwest Passage in 1845.

Environment Minister Jim Prentice said the British government has been notified that one of their naval shipwrecks has been discovered, as well as the bodies of three sailors.

[Requia ☣]

So this ship was lost searching for lost ships?

Did they ever find the first two?

[Doktor Howl]

So this ship was lost searching for lost ships?

Did they ever find the first two?

Probably not.  This is what the English do best...Wander away from posh digs, to freeze to death in some Godforsaken wilderness!

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

It's called "adventuring".

[Captain Utopia]

It's what we did best.  Faced with the prospect of a long life eating boiled meat and veg, or an almost certain quick icy death looking for some god-damned spices and food with actual flavour from the Far East, the choice was a no-brainer.  Fact - The Empire only crumbled once we got the trade issues sorted out and both a Chinese and Indian restaurant in every town and village.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

NEAT!

[Iason Ouabache]

Zoinks! A g-g-g-g-ghost ship!!!

[Jenne]

It's called "adventuring".

We call it "adventurating" in this house--it means some bad shit could/could not happen while out adventuring.

[Adios]

Wow, it's still in very good condition. Amazing.

[Lies]

I have it on good word that one of Iason's ancestors sunk it.

[Dysnomia]

Zoinks! A g-g-g-g-ghost ship!!!

RO NO RAGGY

[Freeky]

Zoinks! A g-g-g-g-ghost ship!!!

RO NO RAGGY

Let's split up! Iason, you and BLARFINGARF go check out the galley of that ghost ship, and me, Cainad, and Dok Howl will go fuck off and probably do drugs.

[Dimocritus]

Zoinks! A g-g-g-g-ghost ship!!!

RO NO RAGGY

Let's split up! Iason, you and BLARFINGARF go check out the galley of that ghost ship, and me, Cainad, and Dok Howl will go fuck off and probably do drugs.

[Lies]

Zoinks! A g-g-g-g-ghost ship!!!

RO NO RAGGY

Let's split up! Iason, you and BLARFINGARF go check out the galley of that ghost ship, and me, Cainad, and Dok Howl will go fuck off and probably do drugs.

I'm pretty sure Iason's the one who's haunting the ship for profit now...
You know, finishing the job his ancestors started.