![]() ![]() ![]() From there, Shackleton, Worsley and four of the fittest members of the crew sailed a gruelling 800 miles to South Georgia, which they reached 16 days later. The crew of Endurance survived, trekking across the ice with two of the ship’s lifeboats full of supplies, camping on the ice until April 1916, when the ice broke and they were able to escape to the uninhabited Elephant Island. Endurance was slowly crushed over the next month and sank on 21 November, 1915. Shackleton finally gave up and the crew decamped to the ice in late October 1915. Despite the best efforts of her crew – who remained onboard for the next ten months – the ship never saw open water again. Image: State Library of New South WalesĮndurance had been designed for polar exploration, with a solid oak hull designed for breaking through ice, but shortly after leaving the island of South Georgia in December 1914, the expedition encountered thick pack ice and became trapped a few weeks later. Endurance under full sail, taken by expedition photographer Frank Hurley. The expedition was to be an attempt at the first land crossing of the Antarctic, from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea by way of the South Pole, which had been reached three years earlier by Roald Amundsen’s expedition, in December 1911. Originally intended for use as a luxury Arctic tourist and polar bear hunting boat, financial problems and a lack of business led to the owners selling her to Shackleton, who renamed the ship Endurance and transferred her to London in 1914.Īfter a refit which removed most of the luxury passenger cabins and crew quarters to make way for equipment stores, Endurance set sail from Plymouth in August 1914 on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, with a crew of 28 men under the command of Captain Frank Worsley. Plus, every issue includes book recommendations, infographics, maps and more!Įndurance was a 44m-long three-masted, sail-and-steam-powered barquentine (a ship with three or more masts) launched under the name Polaris by Framnæs shipyards in Sandefjord, Norway in 1912. From climate change and the environment, to scientific developments and global health, we cover a huge range of topics that span the globe. ![]() ![]() Our monthly print magazine is packed full of cutting-edge stories and stunning photography, perfect for anyone fascinated by the world, its landscapes, people and cultures. Subscribe to Geographical today for just £38 a year. Mensun Bound, maritime archaeologist and Endurance22’s director of exploration, said the footage of Endurance showed it in such good condition that it is ‘by far the finest wooden shipwreck’ he has seen. The bow clearly showing the good condition of Endurance’s wooden hull. The wreck of Endurance, the ship that took Sir Ernest Shackleton to the Antarctic but sank in 1915 after becoming trapped in pack ice, has finally been found, just over 3km deep in the Weddell Sea.įootage of the wreck released by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust (FMHT), which organised the Endurance22 mission to find the lost ship, shows that Endurance remains in remarkably good condition, despite having been crushed by ice and sunk more than 107 years ago. Image: Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust The wreck of Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition ship, has been found 107 years after it sank in Weddell Sea pack ice The stern of Endurance with the name plate clearly visible. ![]()
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