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Originally Posted by ABBAFAN

11th June 1847. Death of Sir John Franklin while leading the expedition to navigate the Northwest Passage with Bomb Vessels HMS Erebus and HMS Terror.

Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier (Franklin’s second-in-command) had written a note which was later found by people searching for the missing expedition. Dated April 25, 1848, the note states that both the Erebus and the Terror were abandoned on April 22nd of that year. It also says that surviving crew members were planning to walk to Back’s Fish River.

Franklin, according to Crozier, had died on the 11th of June, 1847. Crozier's note, however, does not discuss Sir John’s cause of death. Historians believe the Expedition’s commander was likely buried in the ice.

https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/FRANKLIN-EXPEDITION-MUMMIES-Mummies-Bodies-Talk Crozier, with several monuments to him, might have been the real hero of the expedition lasting according to Inuit accounts until 1852!

There were later, unverified Inuit reports that between 1852 and 1858 Crozier and one other expedition member were seen in the Baker Lake area, about 400 km (250 mi) to the south, where in 1948 Farley Mowat found "a very ancient cairn, not of normal Eskimo construction" inside of which were shreds of a hardwood box with dovetail joints

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crozier