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Searching for the greatest shipwreck. Early in 1915 Endurance became trapped in the ice and ten.

Endurance Trapped In Ice Antarctic Sailing Antarctica

Three years later she was crushed by pack ice and sank in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica.

. In 1915 Earnest Shackletons ship Endurance was crushed by the ice while Shackleton and his crew were attempting to be the first to cross Antarctica by land. Endurance set sail from Grytviken South Georgia on 5 December 1914. Endurance sailed from Plymouth.

Shackleton soon rechristened her Endurance after the Shackleton family motto which was Fortitudine vincimus By endurance we conquer. We know with good accuracy where Sir Ernest Shackletons Endurance vessel ended up after sinking more than 100 years ago. In 1914 Shackleton made his third trip to the Antarctic with the ship Endurance planning to cross Antarctica via the South Pole.

04022022 It is one of the most unreachable shipwrecks in the world. A research vessel left Cape. The ship was abandoned and the crew continued in smaller boats making a historic journey across Antartica to the remote Elephant Island before fashioning a lifeboat for Shackleton and several others to.

Oil painting by George Cummings Shackletons Endurance. In February 2022 a major international scientific expedition will explore one of the coldest harshest and most remote locations in the world in a quest to find the EnduranceUsing underwater robots helicopters and other state-of-the-art technology the Endurance22 expedition aims to be the first to locate and survey Sir Ernest Shackletons lost ship which sank in the. All of the crew survived.

Shackletons Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition lasted from 1914 to 1917. The wreckage of polar explorer Ernest Shackletons ship Endurance which was crushed by Antarctic ice and sank some 10000 feet 3000 m to the ocean floor more than a century ago has been. A team of explorers is currently attempting to locate the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackletons Endurance on what would have been the famous Irish explorers 148th birthday.

It was meant to make the first land crossing of Antarctica but Endurance became trapped and then lost in that cruel sea. Endurance was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men and one cat sailed for the Antarctic on the 19141917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic ExpeditionThe ship was launched in 1912 from Sandefjord in Norway. Lloyds of London had insured her for 15000 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.

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