Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier FRS FRAS (17 September 1796 – disappeared 26 April 1848) was an Irish officer of the Royal Navy and polar explorer who participated in six expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. In May 1845, he was second-in-command to Sir John Franklin and captain of HMS Terror during the Franklin expedition to discover the Northwest Passage, which ended with the deaths of all 129 crewmen.
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Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier 17 October 1796 Banbridge, County Down, Ireland
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Died |
26 April 1848 (aged 51) King William Island, Canadian Arctic
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Zodiac | Libra |
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