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CAPTAIN CROZIER 1796-1848 HMS Terror Polar Bear Monument Banbridge Co Down

I've motorcycled down to my old stamping ground town of Banbridge on a rare visit. I spent my first 17 -18 years living here in Windsor Terrace on the Castlewellan Road, before moving down to Gilnahirk, Belfast, 26 miles away, for good. Crozier's Monument always dominated the skyline and view whenever you went to shop or walk up the town. I used to climb around it as a lad with my mates. I knocked about with George or Geordie Crozier, a descendant of the good Captain. I wouldn't have spent a lot of time thinking about the heroics associated with this explorer or his death defying crew. Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier (16 August 1796 – after 1848?) was born in Ireland at Banbridge, County Down and was a British naval officer who participated in six exploratory expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. He was named after Francis Rawdon, the 2nd Earl of Moira, who was a friend of his father. Francis Crozier was born at Avonmore House which still stands today opposite his large memorial in Church Square Banbridge, County Down, Ireland. He was the eleventh of thirteen children, and the fifth son, of attorney-at-law George Crozier, Esq. Francis attended school locally in Banbridge, with his brothers William and Thomas and lived with his family in Avonmore House in the centre of Banbridge which his father had built in 1792. In 1845, he joined Sir John Franklin on the Northwest Passage expedition as captain of HMS Terror. After Franklin's death in June 1847, he took command of the expedition, and his fate and that of the other expedition members remained a mystery until a note from him and James Fitzjames, captain of Erebus, the other ship on the expedition, was discovered on King William Island in 1859 during an expedition led by Captain F. L. McClintock. Dated 25 April 1848, the note said that the ships, stuck in ice, had been abandoned. Nine officers, including John Franklin, and 15 crewmen had died, and the survivors were setting out on 26 April for Back's Fish River on the Canadian mainland. There were later, unverified Inuit reports that between 1852 and 1858 Crozier and one other expedition member were seen in the Baker Lake area, about 400 km (250 mi) to the south, where in 1948 Farley Mowat found "a very ancient cairn, not of normal Eskimo construction" inside which were shreds of a hardwood box with dovetail joints. McClintock and later searchers found relics, graves, and human remains of the Franklin crew on Beechey Island, King William Island, and the northern coast of the Canadian mainland, but none found any of the men alive. Crozier's Monument Location: Church Square Banbridge Date Built: 1862 Who Built it: Designed by famous Belfast Architect W.J. Barre. ( Albert Clock, Ulster Hall Statue and carvings by Joseph Robinson Kirk History: Banbridge town's most famous son was arguably Captain Crozier of North West Passage fame who was born in 1796 at a large house in the town's Church Square. After the ill fated voyage to discover the North West Passage a monument was erected in church Square Banbridge to commemorate this hero. The pedestal was designed in 1862 by W.J. Barre of Newry, ( who designed the Ulster Hall and Albert Memorial in Belfast plus multiple churches ), whilst the statue was carved by Joseph Robinson Kirk, of Dublin costing a total of £700. Further in todays Daily Mail Sailor who went missing during a polar expedition is about to be identified 170 years after he disappeared with his crew In 1993 two skulls found near to where crew of HMS Erebus died in 1845. Experts have reconstructed dead men's faces using pioneering techniques. One bears an uncanny resemblance to a photo of crewman James Reid Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic... Ice Master Reid was part of an expedition of 130 men who disappeared while searching for the fabled Northwest Passage in the icy wastes off northern Canada in 1845. Ice Master Reid, a famed whaler of his time, was part of an elite unit who set off from the UK on two naval ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. But the expedition - led by the decorated war hero John Frankin - ended in disaster when the ships became stranded in thick pack ice a year in. The crew was never seen again with reports they turned to cannibalism to try to survive after abandoning the ships and attempting to walk to the mainland. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic... Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook