 Although McClintock had found conclusive evidence that Sir John Franklin and his fellow expeditioners were dead, Lady Franklin remained convinced that their written records might remain buried in a cache in the Arctic.She provided moral and some financial support for multiple later expeditions that planned to seek the records, including those of William Parker Snow  and Charles Francis Hall  in the 1860s.Finally, in 1874, she joined forces with Allen Young to purchase and fit out the former steam gunboat HMS "Pandora" to undertake another expedition to the region around Prince of Wales Island.