📷HMS Terror as seen in the Arctic, 1836John Smith contacted Peter Carney and me recently.
He's a ship modeller who is striving to create an accurate museum-quality model of HMS Terror as she was fitted in 1845 for the Franklin Expedition. Â As Peter and I did, he has discovered that the plans of the Terror, as held at the National Maritime Museum, can be confusing. Â In 1845 the Terror was over 20 years old and had undergone several extensive processes of modification, as well as being almost wrecked off the coast of Portugal in 1828. Â In addition to that, some of the plans have been reworked in different coloured inks at different times (and also in pencil, as Mr. Smith has spotted). Â This has always made their understanding difficult, especially for people who only buy monochrome copies of the plans!
I commend to you Mr. Smith's blog 'Building Terror' here. Â He presents some beautiful plans of his own drawn from his own research as well as a very interesting commentary on how he has developed them.
I'll certainly be following his blog and I am sure when it emerges his model will be a magnificent tribute to the lost Franklin Expedition as well as a great step forwards in scholarship.
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