The kit features laser-cut parts for the framework, and double plank-on-bulkhead hull construction for ease of build. Betts also served as a technical consultant for the AMC television series, The Terror. This kit is based on the research and plans of ship modeler Matthew Betts, whose own model is currently part of a travelling museum exhibition on the Franklin Expedition. OcCre has created a kit of one of the ships of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition, HMS Terror.

The mystery of the Franklin’s tragic expedition continues to this day, although it is hoped that an archaeological study of the wreck will help shed some light on what happened. Images have been obtained of her deck and interior, showing perfectly preserved objects and parts of the ship that remained intact. Terror, 168 years after her disappearance, was finally discovered. With the collaboration of an Inuit hunter from the Arctic hamlet of Gjoa Haven, on 26th September 2016 the wreck of H.M.S. The last sighting of the two ships was off Greenland was as they entered Baffin Bay, gateway to the frozen Arctic labyrinth. They were stocked with sufficient supplies for 3 years at sea.

They were the first ships to be fitted out with auxiliary steam engines and were also reinforced with iron plating, fore and aft, to increase their resistance to pack ice. Franklin, the ships Terror and Erebus set off on an expedition to navigate the famous Northwest Passage. In 1845, under the command of Sir John A.

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