HMS Erebus (1826)

Erebus in the Ice, 1846, by François Musin
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Erebus
Namesake	Erebus
Ordered	9 January 1823
Builder	Pembroke Dock, Wales
Laid down	October 1824
Launched	7 June 1826 (1826-06-07)
Fate	Abandoned 22 April 1848, King William Island
Wreck discovered	2 September 2014, Wilmot and Crampton Bay
General characteristics
Type	Hecla-class bomb vessel
Displacement	715.3 long tons (727 t)[1]
Tons burthen	372 tons (bm)
Length	105 ft (32 m)
Beam	29 ft (8.84 m)
Installed power	30 Nominal horsepower[2]
Propulsion	Sail, steam engine
Complement	67
Armament	1 × 13 in (330 mm) mortar 1 × 10 in (254 mm) mortar 8 × 24 pdr (10.9 kg) guns 2 × 6 pdr (2.7 kg) guns
National Historic Site of Canada
Official name	Wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site
Designated	2019

HMS Erebus was a Hecla-class bomb vessel constructed by the Royal Navy in Pembroke dockyard, Wales, in 1826. The vessel was the second in the Royal Navy named after Erebus, the personification of darkness in Greek mythology.

The 372-ton ship was armed with two mortars – one 13 in (330 mm) and one 10 in (254 mm) – and 10 guns. The ship took part in the Ross expedition of 1839–1843, and was abandoned in 1848 during the third Franklin expedition. The sunken wreck was discovered by the Canadian Victoria Strait expedition in September 2014.^[3]