# Raise the Terror/Erebus!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raise-the-terror-erebus/698507>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 14, 2014, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raise-the-terror-erebus/698507 "2014-09-14T23:14:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2014, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raise-the-terror-erebus/698507/1 "2014-09-14T23:14:15Z")

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Delete when applicable; my bet is that it’s the _Erebus_ as Inuit accounts put the _Terror_ further south.

But I’m getting ahead of myself, a ship from Sir John Franklin’s doomed 1845 Arctic expedition [has been found](http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/culture/franklin/index.aspx). It’s in one piece and reasonably intact.

What would it take to raise the ship and preserve it for display, after more than a century and a half underwater?

Personally I don’t think they should, but should and could are different questions and the question has been raised;  
‘Asked whether Parks Canada would raise the ship, Bernier didn’t dismiss the possibility, but said it would be very difficult and expensive. Parks Canada generally prefers to leave wrecks where they are, to grant them their proper historical context.’

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**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raise-the-terror-erebus/698507/2 "2014-09-16T19:12:20Z")

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I’m not sure it should be done.  
The ship itself was not of massive historic interest and isn’t really iconic (though of course the mission was). It isn’t as if we have a shortage of ships from that era so I say explore it in situ, retrieve artefacts to find out what happened but otherwise leave it be.

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**Author:** ![md2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2014, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raise-the-terror-erebus/698507/3 "2014-09-16T19:47:18Z")

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How much work was it to raise the Mary Rose, or Vasa in Sweden?

> **[Mary Rose](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rose#Salvage)**
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> The Mary Rose (launched 1511) is a carrack-type warship of the English Tudor navy of King Henry VIII. She served for 33 years in several wars against France, Scotland, and Brittany. After being substantially rebuilt in 1536, she saw her last action on 19 July 1545. She led the attack on the galleys of a French invasion fleet, but sank in the Solent, the strait north of the Isle of Wight.
> The wreck of the Mary Rose was located in 1971 and was raised on 11 October 1982 by the Mary Rose Trust i...