Corporate DS/UK/4144 HMS Investigator; 1848-1853; Royal Navy ship HMS Investigator Royal Navy ship 1848-1853

HMS Investigator was purchased by the Admiralty in 1848 to accompany HMS Enterprise on James Clark Ross's expedition to find Sir John Franklin's missing ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in the Arctic. On the return journey she became trapped in ice at Mercy Bay and was abandoned. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Derbyshire Record Office Collections Manual Section 7 v5.1 (May 2020) Yes DERBYSHIRE\71010800 19/01/2022 DERBYSHIRE\71010800 19/01/2022 00e93ea5-482a-48ad-90db-0178ac40feb5