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Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier FRS FRAS (/ ˈ k r oʊ ʒ ər /; 17 October 1796 – disappeared 26 April 1848) was an Irish officer of the Royal Navy and polar explorer who participated in six expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic.
Learn about the life and adventures of Francis Crozier, a naval officer who participated in four Arctic and two Antarctic expeditions. Discover how he became the leader of the doomed HMS Terror expedition and what happened to him and his crew.
May 16, 2022 · Francis Crozier was an Arctic explorer of great skill and bravery. His disappearance with his ship and crew and the ordeal that followed has been a subject of mystery and fascination since Victorian times.
Crozier, Francis Rawdon Moira (1796–1848), Royal Navy captain and polar explorer, was born in September 1796 in Banbridge, Co. Down, one of thirteen children of George Crozier, attorney-at-law, and his wife Jane Elliot Crozier (née Graham).
May 9, 2019 · An interview with Dr David Murphy of Maynooth University on Captain Francis Crozier, one of the most experienced Polar Explorers of the 19th century who was largely forgotten about after a...
The ‘last man standing’ of the sub-title relates to the ‘legend’ that Crozier was the last survivor. Crozier was a native of Banbridge, County Down, in Northern Ireland. He was born in 1796 into a prosperous Protestant family, and entered the navy, for reasons that are obscure, in 1810.
Oct 20, 2023 · Learn about the 1845 Royal Navy mission to find the Northwest Passage, led by Sir John Franklin and Francis Crozier. Discover how the expedition turned into a nightmare of starvation, cannibalism and death.
