A British-led research team is hoping to find the wreckage of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance in the Antarctic by the end of this week. When British explorer Ernest Shackleton and the crew of HMS Endurance lost their ship to crushing pack ice in the Weddell Sea in 1915, their chances of survival seemed dim. Frank Hurley's photographs have been carefully reproduced in poster format and on unique clothing designs. Endurance may have been the name of Shackleton’s ship, but it’s almost the strapline for his entire expedition, too. Throughout the grueling ordeal, Shackleton and his men show what endurance and greatness are all about. Endurance: The Hunt For Shackleton’s Ice Ship: In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton led an expedition to Antarctica but soon after arrival, Shackleton’s ship – The Endurance – was destroyed by shifting glaciers, and he was tasked with leading his 27 men across the tundra, on an epic struggle for survival. With Kenneth Branagh, John Grillo, Paul Humpoletz, Phoebe Nicholls. The Ship's motto is " Fortitudine Vincimus" ~ 'By Endurance We Conquer' The motto originates from that of the great Antarctic explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton who made history in his ship, 'Endurance' in his expedition south in 1914-15. Page 1 - The journey to Antarctica and into the the Weddell Sea, the besetting of the Endurance, Winter 1915, the crushing and loss of the ship. But after Shackleton’s ship, HMS Endurance, was trapped by pack ice—and slowly succumbed to its crushing pressure—the expedition's fate, … Endurance trapped in the ice. Sir Ernest Shackleton had been counting on Endurance to help him make it ashore, ahead of a … The Shackleton Endurance expedition to Antarctica between 1914 and 1916 is one of the most amazing stories of survival. The 1914 expedition met with disaster when his ship The Endurance was crushed by arctic ice and sank. Earlier this week, the Expedition successfully reached the wreck site, as plotted 104 years ago by Frank Worsley, the Captain of Endurance. The search for Sir Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship, Endurance, has been called off after extreme weather trapped an underwater vehicle under a sheet of ice. Sir Ernest Shackleton was 40 when the ship left Plymouth. As the ship began to sink, Shackleton and his crew were forced to accept their fate, stranded on a sheet of ice in the brutal Antarctic winter of 1915. Shackleton’s battle against the odds […] A new expedition breaks under Antarctic ice to hunt the lost ship of famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. In anticipation, Shackleton had ordered evacuation and the establishment of a camp on the ice. OFFICERS Shackleton chose the following officers for the voyage - Frank Wild, Frank Worsley, Lionel Greenstreet, Tom Crean and Alfred Cheetham, they accompanied the crew and the scientists on board. The Expedition’s remarkable journey has shed new light on the challenges Shackleton, his men and their wooden sailing ship faced over a century ago. In Shackleton’s case, that meant the following. Shackleton set sail aboard the Endurance from South Georgia Island in December of 1914 in a quest to be the first to cross the Antarctic continent. A century ago a ship sank beneath the ice of the Weddell Sea off Antarctica. In brief, Shackleton set out in 1914 in his ship Endurance, with a crew of 28 men and more than twice that in dogs. With Steve Saint Amour, Conrad Anker, Paul Bealing, Annie Bekker. The Endurance is a most intimate portrait of an expedition and of survival. Sir Ernest Shackleton lost his ship, the Endurance, in the Weddell Sea in 1915. In 1914, just as World War 1 was starting, Ernest Shackleton embarked on a journey to cross the Antarctic continent in the Endurance. Headed by … With the ship eventually sinking into the depths, Shackleton and his crew now set up in camps on precarious sheets of ice. In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set off aboard the ship Endurance on an expedition to be the first to cross Antarctica. The polar exploration ship Endurance has not been seen since 1915, when it was crushed by sea ice in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea during a failed Trans-Antarctic crossing by Ernest Shackleton. Everyone had heard and felt the crushing grip of the ice for months and especially over the preceding few weeks. The plan was to sail his ship, the Endurance, to Argentina, then on to Antarctica, then walk across the continent where … In January of 1915, the Endurance became trapped and slowly drifted in the pack ice. Shackleton soon rechristened her ‘Endurance’ after the Shackleton family motto which was “Fortitudine vincimus” (By endurance we conquer). Shackleton named his ship Endurance, borrowing from his family motto: “By endurance we conquer.”. Where the Endurance went down is well known; the ship… Shackleton and his crew on the nimrod Expedition 1909 Photo: Wikipedia One of the greatest stories of survival is the legend of the Shackleton Expedition aboard the ship Endurance. How Shackleton and his men then made their escape on foot and in lifeboats is the stuff of legend. There was one unexpected person who became part of the crew, an 18-year-old stowaway called Perce Blackborow. The Endurance, the ship of explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, has been lost to the Antarctic ice for more than 100 years. In 1914, Shackleton made his third trip to the Antarctic with the ship 'Endurance', planning to cross Antarctica via the South Pole. A young Australian photographer Frank Hurley accompanied Shackleton on the Trans-Antarctic Expedition to record events in motion and still pictures. The Endurance drifted for nine months and was so battered by the ice that Shackleton wrote, “she was doomed”, the crew abandoned ship and she sank in November 1915. Aboard the 300-ton ship, which carried sails and a steam engine, were Shackleton’s hand-picked crew of 26 men, 69 sled dogs, and a tiger tabby tomcat named Mrs. Chippy. The search for Sir Ernest's ship was an "extra" for the Weddell Sea Expedition 2019. On August 1, 1914, the same day Germany declared war on Russia, Shackleton departed London on the ship Endurance for his third trip to the South … His charisma, ability to focus his team’s minds and lead them through a physically and emotionally difficult situation to safety, is what keeps people coming back for me. Alexander reveals Shackleton as an inspiring optimist, "a leader who put his men first." The 28 men spent months drifting on ice floes and traversing the Southern Ocean in … The Endurance entered the packed ice and got stuck within sight of the continent only sixty miles from her intended destination. The true story of Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the South Pole, and his epic struggle to lead his twenty-eight man crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice. Directed by Oliver Twinch. pictures - page 2. Lloyds of London had insured her for £15,000 which was the first time in history a ship had been insured into the waters of the Antarctic such was their confidence in the voyage and quality of the ship. The ship moved southward and encountered heavy ice which slowed their progress to […] Icebound for nearly 300 days, their ship, the Endurance sank. Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance has not been seen since 1915, when the ship was crushed by sea ice during his ill-fated trans-Antarctic crossing. Shackleton’s determination and ingenuity on the Endurance expedition earned him a place in the history of exploration. On his third Antarctic expedition, Sir Ernest Shackleton led the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition for Britain, which departed England in 1914. In1921,Shackleton led his final journey to the Antarctic on the ship Quest,bringing with him a handful of the original Endurance crew members.But shortly after the start of the expedition—on January 5,1922—Shackleton died of a heart attack;he was in his late 40s. Photo: AFP or licensors. Shackleton Endurance Expedition. Posters, t-shirts and postcards celebrating the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-1916, in Shackleton's ship Endurance. In recruitment, Shackleton advertised, “Men wanted for hazardous journey.Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. By October of 1915 Shackleton made the order to abandon ship, as the Endurance was slowly being crushed under the force of the ice pack. Now, an ambitious expedition to … Endurance departed for the Weddell Sea on 5 December, from South Georgia Island. Why is the team not too downhearted? This documentary follows a team of researchers as they attempt to locate the wreck using coordinates recorded by the doomed ship’s navigator and endure conditions that remain treacherous to this day. Shackleton joined the ship later in Buenos Aires. Shackleton made his trip with a crew of 28 experienced polar explorers, scientists, and sailors, on board the Norwegian ship Endurance. The ship, with Shackleton on board, was the tug Yelcho, from Punta Arenas, Chile, rescued all the men who had set out on the original expedition. A place in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica show what Endurance and greatness are all.... 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