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About Charles Des Voeux
Charles Frederick Des Voeux was an Irish officer in the British Royal Navy. He served as mate aboard HMS Erebus during the 1845 Franklin Expedition which sought to chart the Canadian Arctic, including the Northwest Passage, and make scientific observations. All personnel of the expedition, including Des Voeux, died in what is now Nunavut, Canada in uncertain circumstances. He and Graham Gore signed and deposited the Victory Point Record, one of the only official communications of the expedition yet found.
Everything about Charles Des Voeux →- Occupation
- naval officer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- 1825
- Died
- 1847