DNA breakthrough identifies cabin boy David Young as exhibition marks 200 years since ship’s launch ON MAY 19, 1845, a handsome 17-year-old boy boarded the Pembroke Dock-built ship HMS Erebus to begin one of the most tortuous and tragic voyages in modern history. David Young, like all the other crew members around him, was full of excitement and an unquenchable determination that their Arctic expedition would be equally as successful as Erebus’s…
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