Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition
A Failed Rescue Aboard The Southern Sky. The Endurance Expedition. “The sea was freezing around us and the ice gradually grew thicker, reducing our speed to about five knots.” Ernest Shackleton, South. Ernest Shackleton, Tom Crean and Frank Worsley had arrived at the whaling station in Stromness, South Georgia on the 20th May 1916, via…
The Rescue of McCarthy, Vincent & McNish. The Endurance Expedition – South Georgia. Having only arrived in Stromness earlier that afternoon, after the perilous crossing of South Georgia’s jagged, ice covered interior, Frank Worsley agreed to accompany the relief mission to pick up the three men stranded on the other side of the island. The…
Arrival At Stromness The Endurance Expedition “Pain and ache, boat journeys, marches, hunger and fatigue seemed to belong to the limbo of forgotten things, and there remained only the perfect contentment that comes of work accomplished.” Ernest Shackleton In the early afternoon of May 20th 1916, three eerie creatures emerged from the rugged interior of…
Into The Unknown – Crossing South Georgia The Endurance Expedition The almost impossible had been achieved and for Shackleton, Crean, Worsley, McCarthy, Vincent and McNish the 16 day crossing of the Weddell Sea, in the James Caird, concluded as it had eventuated – in another desperate struggle! But try as they might, the shattered men…
The Voyage To Cape Wild The Endurance Expedition “Wild was to proceed westwards along the coast and was to take with him four of the fittest men, Marston, Crean, Vincent, and McCarthy.” * Having finally reached Elephant Island, with the abject crew of the Endurance, after a deplorable seven day journey in three lifeboats, Ernest…
Shackleton’s Lifeboats Make Landfall On Elephant Island The Endurance Expedition On April 9th 1916, the ice floe that Shackleton and the crew of the Endurance, had established Patience Camp upon, had begun to break up beneath their feet, and forced them into a rather hasty evacuation. The men had previously managed to salvage three lifeboats…
Shackleton Gives The Order To Sail The Lifeboats The Endurance Expedition – Voyage to Elephant Island Begins “Many of the important events of our Expedition occurred on Sundays, and this particular day was to see our forced departure from the floe on which we had lived for nearly six months, and the start of our…