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On 14 February, an open channel of water opened up 0.25 mi (0.40 km) ahead of the ship and dawn showed the Endurance was afloat in a pool of soft, young ice no more than 2 ft (0.61 m) thick, but the pool was surrounded by solid pack ice of 12–18 ft (3.7–5.5 m) in thickness, blocking the path to the open lead. A day's continual work by the ...
But its three-masted timber sailing ship Endurance fell victim to the treacherous Weddell Sea, becoming ensnared in pack ice in January 1915. It was progressively crushed and sank 10 months later.
Nelson Island, Antarctica 1960 Fire (building) 8 Mirny Station fire [7] [8] [9] Mirny Station, Antarctica 1823 Shipwreck: 7 Jenny [10] Drake Passage, Southern Ocean Most likely a legend 1958 Aircraft: 7 Cape Hallett Bay plane crash [11] Cape Hallett Bay, Antarctica 6 survivors 1966 Aircraft: 6 Ross Ice Shelf plane crash [12] Ross Ice Shelf ...
In June 2024, wreck hunters found Quest, the vessel on which Shackleton made his final voyage. She was found on the seafloor off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada by a team led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS). [194] The ship was found "intact" lying at a depth of 390 metres (1,280 ft). [195]
The fabled expedition of Ernest Shackleton, the Anglo-Irish explorer who led 27 men on a voyage to Antarctica in 1914 aboard the three-masted barquentine schooner Endurance, only to see his ship ...
Which was last seen in 1915 by Shackleton and his crew as it got crushed by ice and sank in Antarctica's Weddell Sea. At which point Shackleton, like many a Saab owner, had to start walking.
The book details the almost two-year struggle for survival endured by the twenty-eight man crew of the exploration ship Endurance. The ship was beset and eventually crushed by ice floes in the Weddell Sea, leaving the men stranded on the pack ice. All in all, the crew drifted on a series of ice floes for just over a year, facing a second ...
ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland (AP) — The wreck of the last ship belonging to Sir Ernest Shackleton, a famed Irish explorer of Antarctica, has been found off the coast of Labrador in Canada, 62 years ...