How many ships were in the Franklin Expedition?
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Two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, comprised the Franklin Expedition. Led by Sir John Franklin, the expedition departed England in 1845 with the goal of finding the Northwest Passage. Both ships became trapped in ice in 1846 and were abandoned in 1848. The fate of the expedition remained a mystery for decades until the wrecks of both ships were discovered in the Canadian Arctic in the 2010s.
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