John Torrington grave

John Torrington

Petty Officer John Shaw Torrington (1825 — 1 January 1846) was an explorer and Royal Navy stoker. He was part of an expedition to find the Northwest Passage, but died early in the trip and was buried on Beechey Island. His preserved body was exhumed in 1984, to try to determine the cause of death.^[2] It was the best preserved example of a corpse since the ancient Tollund Man which was found in the 1950s.^[3]

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