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e. In Greek mythology, Erebus ( / ˈɛrəbəs /; [ 1] Ancient Greek: Ἔρεβος, romanized : Érebos, lit. '"darkness, gloom"'), [ 2] or Erebos, is the personification of darkness. In Hesiod 's Theogony, he is the offspring of Chaos, and the father of Aether and Hemera (Day) by Nyx (Night); in other Greek cosmogonies, he is the father of ...
Erebus was equipped with two 15 in (381 mm)/42 guns in a single forward turret mounted on a tall barbette to extend the range of fire to 40,000 yd (22.7 mi; 36.6 km). The Erebus class were designed to outrange German heavy shore batteries and they were also fitted with highly effective anti-torpedo bulges on each side of the hull.
Uranus. v. t. e. In Greek mythology, Aether, Æther, Aither, or Ether ( / ˈiːθər /; Ancient Greek: Αἰθήρ (Brightness) [ 1] pronounced [ai̯tʰɛ̌ːr]) is the personification of the bright upper sky. According to Hesiod, he was the son of Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night), and the brother of Hemera (Day). [ 2] In Orphic cosmogony ...
The Erebus class of warships was a class of 20th century Royal Navy monitors armed with a main battery of two 15-inch /42 Mk 1 guns in a single turret. It consisted of two vessels, Erebus and Terror, named after the two ships lost in the Franklin Expedition. Both were launched in 1916 and saw active service in World War I off the Belgian coast.
Mount Erebus ( / ˈɛrɪbəs /) is the second-highest volcano in Antarctica (after Mount Sidley ), the highest active volcano in Antarctica, and the southernmost active volcano on Earth. It is the sixth-highest peak of an island and the second most prominent mountain in Antarctica after Mount Vinson. [ 4] It has a summit elevation of 3,794 ...
Outward journey and loss. Relics of the Franklin expedition found in 1857 by McClintock. Model of Erebus trapped in the ice, Nattilik Heritage Centre, Gjoa Haven, Nunavut. The expedition set sail from Greenhithe, Kent, on the morning of 19 May 1845, with a crew of 24 officers and 110 men.
The Mount Erebus disaster occurred on 28 November 1979 when Air New Zealand Flight 901 (TE901) [ nb 1] flew into Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica, killing all 237 passengers and 20 crew on board. [ 1][ 2] Air New Zealand had been operating scheduled Antarctic sightseeing flights since 1977. This flight left Auckland Airport in the ...
On 7 September 2014, the wreck of HMS Erebus was discovered by the Canadian Victoria Strait expedition in Wilmot and Crampton Bay, to the west of the Adelaide Peninsula just to the south of King William Island, in 11 m (36 ft) of water. [2]