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Divers discover guns and coins in wrecks of ships that vanished nearly 2 centuries ago off Canada

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[ad_1] What technology could change the way we learn about shipwrecks What technology could change the way we learn about shipwrecks 05:06 In 1845, the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror set sail from England on a mission to chart a passage around the top of North America. Led by Captain Sir John Franklin, the voyage ended in tragedy three years later when both ships were lost in the frigid waters off Canada's coast. None of the 129 men on board the ships survived. The so-called Franklin Expedition marked the worst disaster in the history of British polar exploration, according to the  Royal Museums Greenwich  in London. Nearly two centuries after the ships sank, divers exploring