Parks Canada confirms ship found in Arctic was Franklin’s HMS Terror

Parks Canada scientists are already panting with impatience to return to the ``dramatic, pristine’’ wreck found in the Arctic earlier this month that has now been positively identified as the second ship from the doomed Franklin expedition. ``It’s going to be a long winter,’’ said archaeologist Ryan Harris. Three dives to the HMS Terror discovered Sept. 3 off Nunavut’s King William Island suggest the vessel lost more than 160 years ago during Sir John Franklin’s search for the Northwest Passage is in excellent shape, said Harris.