In this episode of Shipwreck Tales, Graeme Hill is joined by maritime historian John McCrystal to recount the extraordinary last voyage of the Karluk. What begins as a Canadian Arctic expedition to map the unknown northern reaches of North America becomes a grim survival story after the ship is trapped, carried across the ice, and eventually crushed near Siberia. Hill and McCrystal trace the expedition’s ambition, poor luck, human tensions, and acts of endurance as the survivors battle darkness, cold, starvation, scurvy, and isolation on Wrangel Island before rescue finally arrives.