2015 - $20 - 1 oz. Fine Silver Coloured - Lost Ships in Canadian Waters: Franklin's Lost Expedition

Heroic sailor-soul,
Art passing on thine happier voyage now
Toward no earthly pole.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), as engraved on a monument to Sir John Franklin in Westminster Abbey

It was the sensational story of its time, one that still captivates the imagination 170 years later. Under Sir John Franklin's command, two Royal Navy ships set sail with every expectation of success in May of 1845 to chart the last unknown part of the Northwest Passage—yet they never returned. Subsequent expeditions who searched for the missing ships uncovered stories and relics; then, in September 2014 came news that stunned the world: Canada's Victoria Strait Expedition had discovered the wreck of H.M.S. Erebus, Franklin's flagship, lying on the Arctic seabed. This scientific breakthrough raises the possibility that new evidence could help solve some of the lingering mysteries surrounding the lost expedition and its final days, for what really happened to the Franklin expedition? In its Lost Ships in Canadian Waters series, the Royal Canadian Mint commemorates this famously ill-fated voyage with a coin that depicts Franklin's ships before they were lost to the ice and cold waters of the Canadian North.

Specifications
No. 144687
Mintage 7000
Composition 99.99% pure silver
Finish proof
Weight (g) 31.39
Diameter (mm) 38
Edge plain with edge lettering
Certificate serialized
Face value 20 dollars
Artist John Horton (reverse), Susanna Blunt (obverse)