For more than 300 years, no one knew what happened to them.
With no bodies recovered and no records created, families were left with uncertainty.

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He Sailed After His Father’s Execution

William III Cheney was raised in the shadow of scandal.

Perhaps he hoped to restore honor to his family’s name when he joined the Phips Expedition in 1690.

His ship never returned.

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I was today years old when I found out that Olaudah Equiano's journey to the North Pole was the same one as Horatio Nelson's.

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