# Scurvy and malnutrition, as the provisions lost their value, killed or weakened the crews.

> Most likely: Scurvy and malnutrition, as the provisions lost their value, killed or weakened the crews.

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Answer · Franklin expedition (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror)

# Scurvy and malnutrition, as the provisions lost their value, killed or weakened the crews.

Scurvy and malnutrition, as the provisions lost their value, killed or weakened the crews.

**Most likely** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Most likely** Its tests partly supported it: two pieces of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Skeletal signs of scurvy and markers of malnutrition in voyage-formed tissue.

## What would rule it out

- Remains without scurvy or nutritional stress markers.

## Evidence 2 for · none against

[Signs of scurvy in the Erebus Bay remains.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/franklin-expedition/evidence/EVD0D59K1J279ZS/signs-of-scurvy-in-the-erebus-bay-remains)

Supported

FOR

[Thumbnail element series of a Beechey sailor bears on his nutrition in his last months.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/franklin-expedition/evidence/EVD0D59K1SW5F6M/thumbnail-element-series-of-a-beechey-sailor-bears-on-his)

Suggestive

FOR

## The questions it answers

[Why did 24 of 129 men die aboard Erebus and Terror before April 1848, when other Arctic expeditions lost few?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/franklin-expedition/questions/QST0D59JZ3Y4S45/why-did-24-of-129-men-die-aboard-erebus-and-terror-before)

Most likelyScurvy and malnutrition, as the provisions lost their value, killed or weakened the crews

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Scurvy and malnutrition, as the provisions lost their value, killed or weakened the crews. [Answer ANS0D59K1A814R3]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D59K1A814R3
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