They may have but I thought Shackelton brought all his men to safety.
In fact, Franklin’s men died of starvation, tuberculosis, lead poisoning and various other horrible diseases.
One of his sailors - blond, slim and beautiful even in death - died a horrible death from lead poisoning.
A very tragic tale.
When the first three sailors who died on the voyage were exhumed in the 1980s they were in coffins with name plates and remarkably well
preserved. They had even been autopsied by ship’s doctors.
The soldering used in the early style metal cans were thought to have
contributed to slow lead poisoning and weakening of the expedition
members.
Didn’t his modern day ancestor participate in the “unburial?”