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The famous logbook that records their last days was never written, and the real papers say something plainer.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mVQr00fINkhttps://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/3mVQr00fINk2026-10-03yeshttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/hero-flannan.CQ7jcGZM_ZgvviS.webpA white lighthouse and its keepers' cottages on the grassy summit of a sea cliff at dusk, the beam turning out over the waterhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/00-004-dark-lighthouse.CCmfQtig_Z2d1vgr.webpA white lighthouse on a cliff top seen from the sea under heavy dark cloud, its lantern unlit and the windows of the cottages blackhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/00-003-porthole-view.BvJbqBa1_1v6Qj9.webpA cliff-bound headland with a distant lighthouse, seen through a round brass porthole streaked with sprayhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/01-011-railing-above-sea.DnGmSLzQ_ZbuXDT.webpA narrow path along a clifftop behind an iron railing, breaking white water on the rocks far belowhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/01-013-archive-box.B5icFJWp_Z2lglsU.webpHands lifting the lid of a metal archive box packed with yellowed papers, on a desk by a window looking out to seahttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/02-016-island-aerial.CYzx7g_O_Z2tRazn.webpA small flat-topped island ringed by sheer cliffs on every side, a white lighthouse and low buildings on the grass at its summithttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/02-019-building-the-light.BZrSzDHe_1Nih7C.webpWorkmen in flat caps hauling on ropes at a timber derrick crane on a clifftop, lowering a dressed stone block, a rowing boat in the sea belowhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/03-031-steamer-at-night.CeFZGkhQ_JtsP.webpA steamship under way in a heavy sea at night, smoke streaming from her funnel and her red and green navigation lights burninghttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/03-042-empty-beds.k7d02al7_2acsuo.webpA bare whitewashed room with three iron bedsteads, the blankets rumpled and thrown back, a small window on a grey seahttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/04-052-log-stops.CfgzLPWL_fh0QV.webpA large ledger lying open on a table by a window, ruled columns filled in on the left-hand page and the right-hand page blankhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/04-053-the-slate.CRrPW8O8_GDiRL.webpA wooden-framed writing slate hanging by a cord on a whitewashed wall, rows of chalk marks on it and a stub of chalk on the window sillhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/05-081-twisted-railings.BshrP3zA_1c4CWJ.webpHeavy iron railing posts bent out of line above a rocky shore, rusted and wet, a white sea running in behind themhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/05-083-lifebuoy-gone.BJ5gv2zw_ZjklOX.webpAn empty iron ring mounted on a railing above the water, a frayed rope end hanging from it where a lifebuoy was fastenedhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/06-098-coat-left-behind.DSc0356h_ZXB64q.webpA single heavy coat hanging on a hook on a stone wall beside an open weathered door, wind-driven sea and low cloud beyondhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/06-118-reaching-hands.BGFpySIi_2rS7cs.webpTwo figures on wet rock reaching for each other with outstretched hands as a sea breaks behind them, their faces turned awayhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/07-124-red-ink-register.C1OkIJVo_Z1YfgoN.webpA large bound register open on a desk, its ruled pages almost empty except for one short line written in red inkhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/07-126-widow-and-children.XdkkVF6C_ZtPsa.webpA woman in black mourning dress and gloves sitting at a window holding a keeperhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/08-133-cliff-to-light.ko0Y8dii_Z2leuzc.webpA columnar sea cliff rising sheer from the water to a lighthouse standing on the grass at the top, seen from sea levelhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/08-140-light-at-night.aXdkmivQ_ZXQIMv.webpA lighthouse burning on a low island across calm water at night, its reflection running toward the dark rocks in the foregroundhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/cover-flannan.BCGwqHnI_3wz9d.webphttps://thelastlogbook.com/episodes/franklin-lost-expedition/2026-10-04T18:50:45.339Zweeklyhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/03-ships-locked-in-ice.DV-LX8-u_ZmK6zX.webp129 Men Vanished in the Arctic. 180 Years Later, DNA Named One of ThemTwo Royal Navy ships sailed for the Northwest Passage in 1845 and never came back. A single sheet of paper, written on twice a year apart, is most of what we know.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thwzldoUJY0https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/thwzldoUJY02026-09-20yeshttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/03-ships-locked-in-ice.DV-LX8-u_ZmK6zX.webpTwo 1840s three-masted sailing ships completely locked in thick Arctic pack icehttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/00-officer-opening-the-cairn.DwE3iUqU_Z1g1OYw.webpA Royal Navy officer lifting stones from a cairn on a snow-covered Arctic ridgehttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/00-the-note-margins.8aIJsfQ5_1XUL24.webpThe naval record form seen from above, handwriting crowded into every marginhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/02-six-hundred-tins.SdFoDpRW_Z1EA5Gx.webpA large pile of hundreds of rusting empty tin cans at an abandoned Arctic winter camphttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/02-three-grave-markers.B66KEFiP_Z1xKnTt.webpThree weathered wooden grave markers standing in a row on a windswept Arctic slopehttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/04-dragging-the-boats.CvHZ7nTf_82c0V.webpA long column of exhausted men hauling two wooden boats on sledges across broken sea icehttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/05-boat-pointing-north.BPtU2H3k_A4sCv.webpThe abandoned boat on its sledge seen from behind, its bow pointing toward the far white horizonhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/06-rae-portrait.DC8tlYq6_Z1Xzrjg.webpOil painting portrait in 1850s style of a lean bearded explorer in fur-trimmed travelling clotheshttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/07-intact-wreck.CtzjDdzP_Z2qTS1s.webpA remarkably intact nineteenth-century wooden warship upright on the seabed, hatches closedhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/08-genetics-workstation.CMXJoEm5_2qvgNi.webpA scientist in gloves and lab coat at a genetics workstation, DNA sequence graphs on two monitorshttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/08-memorial-cairn.--cND2Vt_1utWKH.webpA simple stone memorial cairn with a small weathered brass plaque on a barren Arctic shore at sunsethttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/08-the-note-on-the-stones.o_ZO79yQ_2iU9wd.webpAn aged folded sheet of paper on grey Arctic stones, its corner lifted by the windhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/cover-franklin.CHZMhiME_1L6Y4P.webphttps://thelastlogbook.com/episodes/roanoke-lost-colony/2026-10-04T18:50:45.339Zweeklyhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/hero-roanoke.DKWStB2j_6A6R1.webpRoanoke: 115 People Vanished. They Left One Word Carved in a Post.A hundred and fifteen English settlers vanished from an island in 1587. They left one word carved on a post, and no sign of distress above it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlt8bNMqXk8https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/jlt8bNMqXk82026-09-26yeshttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/hero-roanoke.DKWStB2j_6A6R1.webpThe word CROATOAN carved in capital letters into a post where the bark has been stripped awayhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/00-03-cleared-ground.6IglrXyG_1jWkUG.webpEmpty cleared ground enclosed by a palisade of upright tree trunks, forest and water beyond in early lighthttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/01-05-algonquian-town.QrbHmURA_ZjT6KJ.webpAn Algonquian town on a shoreline: domed bark-covered houses, cooking fires, a dugout canoe and planted fieldshttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/02-02-tiger-aground.BlBjop6c_Z2bil9i.webpA sixteenth-century sailing ship heeled hard over aground in heavy surf under a storm skyhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/02-11-fifteen-men.CcHw2bxO_ZGf26q.webpA column of armed men in helmets walking away along a beach at sunset, a ship anchored offshorehttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/03-06-pilot-argument.wE3NNpT8_1qYXu3.webpTwo men arguing on a shiphttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/03-10-newborn.DMWPMTnE_1byBcd.webpA woman holding a newborn wrapped in cloth by candlelight in a timber room, a man beside herhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/06-06-cro-on-tree.BnVcQBid_2igIcV.webpThe three letters C R O carved into the bark of a tree trunk above a sandy bankhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/06-07-palisade-dawn.Dsh98XQ5_1YBp1A.webpA palisade wall of heavy tree trunks with two raised corner platforms, standing around empty grass at sunrisehttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/06-12-letter-ireland.CrFqLqTD_ZOf9yj.webpAn older man writing on a sheet of paper by candlelight at a table beside a dark windowhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/07-04-white-map.C7j1F5Ow_Z1Ps2gY.webpA close view of an old hand-drawn coastal chart on aged paper, inlets and shoreline in faded inkhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/07-06-fort-symbol.DFvol7NV_Z1a4lXr.webpA red and blue fort symbol on an old map, revealed beneath a lifted paper patchhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/07-09-hatteras-dig.Dtbm54J1_Z2vOo1L.webpArchaeologists kneeling in sandy soil under live oaks near a shoreline, buckets and tools around themhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/07-11-deer-jaw.CK1EkY7L_Z2bI7o.webpA deer jawbone on a laboratory surface beside a scale bar, a small round metal object lodged in ithttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/08-06-walking-inland.B-7tXqJA_Z1Kz1t7.webpPeople carrying packs walking a forest path away from the coast, water visible behind themhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/08-08-shared-fire.SXWiEPpo_tR2Qk.webpEnglish settlers and Algonquian people sitting together around a fire outside a domed bark househttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/08-10-post-at-dusk.JV7CHhks_Z1zbLoY.webpA single upright post standing before a palisade at dusk, the sun low on the horizon behindhttps://thelastlogbook.com/_astro/cover-roanoke.C48qlmfB_Z14IBAv.webphttps://thelastlogbook.com/free-guide/2026-10-04T18:50:45.339Zweeklyhttps://thelastlogbook.com/privacy/2026-10-04T18:50:45.339Zweeklyhttps://thelastlogbook.com/sources/2026-10-04T18:50:45.339Zweeklyhttps://thelastlogbook.com/terms/2026-10-04T18:50:45.339Zweekly