This is but one of several rescue operations sent to the Arctic in search of Sir John Franklin's lost 1845 expedition. The H.M.S. Enterprise was nearly lost herself and did not make it back to England for FIVE YEARS. During that time, the crew suffered horrible deprivation, freezing temperatures, disease, and death. Through good leadership and perseverance, they finally made it home. Many decades before Shackelton's famous voyage on Endeavor, the Enterprise and her crew made news around the world.