Ernest Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton's ship HMS Endurance was discovered 107 years after sinking, but who was Shackleton himself?

Unfortunately, Shackleton died at Grytviken, South Georgia, at the outset of the journey in 1922. After then sailing 800 miles to South Georgia, Shackleton was able to rescue his crew through four separate relief expeditions, and amazingly none of his crew died in the whole ordeal. The Endurance22 expedition was able to locate the ship, which was found at a depth of 3,008 metres in the Weddell Sea.

Expedition director hails find of largely intact vessel as 'milestone in polar history'

“It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation. “We are overwhelmed by our good fortune in having located and captured images of Endurance,” Mensun Bound added. However, an expedition has now located the remarkably intact vessel at a depth of 3,008 metres, approximately four miles south of the position originally recorded by the ship’s captain Frank Worsley, The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust said.

The wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's wooden ship has been recovered from the ocean depths more than a century after it sank off the coast of Antarctica.

"It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation. It is protected by the Antarctic Treaty. Nor did we wish to tamper with it." It was surveyed using the latest tools and its position confirmed. The entire team aboard #Endurance22 are happy and a little exhausted! He said the wreck is "coherent" and in an "astonishing state of preservation". At the request of Shackleton’s wife, Emily, the explorer was buried in South Georgia in tribute to his commitment to exploring the Antarctic and love of being at sea.

EXPLORER Ernest Shackleton set afoot his Endurance vessel and commenced a voyage in December of 1914.Although Shackleton made it back the next year, t.

"I would also like to say thank you to The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, and all of our partners, especially in South Africa, who have played a vital role in the success of the expedition.” "We hope our discovery will engage young people and inspire them with the pioneering spirit, courage, and fortitude of those who sailed Endurance to Antarctica." Despite the shipwreck, Shackleton and the rest of his crew managed to survive the disaster. Ernest Shackleton and his crew boarded the Endurance ship and departed for the Weddell Sea, close to Antarctica. The exploration's director, Mensun Bound, said in a press release: "We are overwhelmed by our good fortune in having located and captured images of Endurance." EXPLORER Ernest Shackleton set afoot his Endurance vessel and commenced a voyage in December of 1914.

Just this week, and 107 years after it sank, scientists found and filmed Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance ship in what has been described as 'one of the ...

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Ernest Shackleton is considered one of the great British explorers, with the Endurance expedition one of history's most heroic rescues.

It is in excellent condition, particularly considering it has spent more than a century underwater. After publishing an account of the Endurance expedition, Shackleton quickly tired of the lecture circuit and planned one final expedition back to the Antarctic. In a desperate rescue attempt, he embarked on a 16-day voyage in one of the small vessels with five other men to reach the South Georgia whaling stations. Shackleton switched his attention to attemptint to cross the Antarctic continent by land, launching the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition on the Endurance in August 1914. However, he was always planning on returning to the Antarctic, and went on to lead his own expedition on the Nimrod in 1908. By 1898 he had rising to the rank of master mariner, and in 1901 was able to secure a place on the National Antarctic Expedition, led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, which took place on the ship Discovery.

With the discovery of Shackleton's lost vessel Endurance, the spotlight has again been put on the polar explorer who had Dundee connections.

Shackleton calculated that if he could sail one of the ship’s tiny whaleboats across the freezing sea he might reach the transmitter to gain help.” “After the last of the dogs were shot and eaten, their real ordeal began. Congratulations to all involved including @thehistoryguywho visited @DulwichCollegebefore leaving for the #Antarctic. pic.twitter.com/Xvjfx1rkZ2 “His goal was to be the first man to cross the continent, the last great prize in the history of exploration.” Dr Watson said: “Shackleton and his men dragged lifeboats across the frozen water until they reached the edge of the ocean before rowing 100 miles to Elephant Island. Dr Watson said: “The expedition was costly and Shackleton spent much of that year trying to raise sponsorship. “In 1914 he announced that he intended to cross the Antarctic continent from the Weddell Sea, south of the Falkland Islands, via the South Pole, to a destination in McMurdo Sound on the Ross Sea, south of New Zealand. The expedition required two ships: Endurance under Shackleton for the Weddell Sea party, and Aurora, another Dundee-built ship, under Aeneas Mackintosh, for the Ross Sea party, which Shackleton later described as “one of the finest I have known”. “Although the Pole had been conquered, Shackleton’s thirst for exploration was unquenched, and his most audacious and dangerous expedition was still to come. Although his 1907-09 expedition was badly prepared – he was criticised for taking only nine dogs, most of which were shot and eaten – Shackleton and three companions battled through terrible conditions to a spot just 97 miles from the South Pole. The relief ship Morning, later a Dundee whaler, was unable to get through, but Shackleton was ferried across the ice to her and invalided home. Sir Ernest Shackleton was one of the great explorers of the Heroic Age.

The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust confirmed on Wednesday that the Endurance22 Expedition has located the wreck of Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ...

I would also like to say thank you to The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, and all of our partners, especially in South Africa, who have played a vital role in the success of the expedition.” Short-form content continues to be distributed to millions of subscribers, including with content breaking on TikTok. The team has also been filming for a long-form observational documentary chronicling the expedition which has been commissioned by National Geographic to air later this year. In the Weddell Sea, Endurance never reached land and became trapped in the dense pack ice and the 28 men on board eventually had no choice but to abandon ship. In addition, we have undertaken important scientific research in a part of the world that directly affects the global climate and environment. Saab provided the Sabertooth so I also want to thank them, including their ace team on board SA Agulhas II, and those who ensured the vehicles performed as well as they did.” We hope our discovery will engage young people and inspire them with the pioneering spirit, courage and fortitude of those who sailed Endurance to Antarctica. We pay tribute to the navigational skills of Captain Frank Worsley, the Captain of the Endurance, whose detailed records were invaluable in our quest to locate the wreck. “This has been the most complex subsea project ever undertaken, with several world records achieved to ensure the safe detection of Endurance. State of the art subsea technologies have been deployed to achieve this successful outcome and I would particularly like to thank the subsea team for all of the engineering support, both on board the ship and throughout the months of planning, design and testing. However, it is not all about the past; we are bringing the story of Shackleton and Endurance to new audiences, and to the next generation, who will be entrusted with the essential safeguarding of our polar regions and our planet. It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation. The Trustees extend to them all our warmest thanks and congratulations on this historic achievement.” “Our objectives for Endurance22 were to locate, survey and film the wreck, but also to conduct important scientific research, and to run an exceptional outreach programme. The team worked from the South African polar research and logistics vessel, S. A. Agulhas II, owned by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment and under Master, Capt. Knowledge Bengu, using Saab’s Sabertooth hybrid underwater search vehicles.

The wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance has been found 107 years after it became trapped in sea ice and sank off the coast of Antarctica.

“It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation. We want to start a community among our readers, so please follow us on sign up to our newsletters and get a curated selection of our best reads to your inbox every day. It was surveyed using the latest tools and its position confirmed. The entire team aboard #Endurance22 are happy and a little exhausted! The search, called the Edurance22 expedition, set sail on 5 February, one month after the 100th anniversary of Shackleton’s death. Here they were able to survive by eating seals and penguins, and using the upturned lifeboats as shelter. Captain Frank Worsley recorded the coordinates of the ship’s location in his diary when it sank, which were 68°39’ 30”S, 52°26’30”W. However, in the Weddell Sea, Endurance never reached land and instead found itself trapped in the dense ice on 18 January 1915. A message from the editor: Thank you for reading. It is protected by the Antarctic Treaty. Nor did we wish to tamper with it.” He said the wreck is “coherent” and in an “astonishing state of preservation”. The purpose of the expedition was to find the lost ship which sank during Shackleton’s quest to Antarctica in 1915.

The whereabouts of wooden ship, which was submerged in the Weddell Sea after it became trapped in ice in 1915, had remained a mystery for decades.

“It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation. “We are overwhelmed by our good fortune in having located and captured images of Endurance,” Mensun Bound added. However, an expedition has now located the remarkably intact vessel at a depth of 3,008 metres, approximately four miles south of the position originally recorded by the ship’s captain Frank Worsley, The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust said.

The ship had not been seen since it was crushed by ice and sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915.

It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation. It is protected by the Antarctic Treaty. Nor did we wish to tamper with it." It was surveyed using the latest tools and its position confirmed. The entire team aboard #Endurance22 are happy and a little exhausted! We have made polar history with the discovery of Endurance, and successfully completed the world’s most challenging shipwreck search. “This is by far the finest wooden shipwreck I have ever seen.

The ship, called Endurance, was crushed by ice and sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915.

"We have also conducted an unprecedented educational outreach programme, with live broadcasting from on board, allowing new generations from around the world to engage with Endurance22 and become inspired by the amazing stories of polar exploration, and what human beings can achieve and the obstacles they can overcome when they work together." "We have made polar history with the discovery of Endurance, and successfully completed the world’s most challenging shipwreck search. Dr John Shears, the expedition leader, said of the success: " The Endurance22 expedition has reached its goal.

The famous shipwreck which sank in 1915 was discovered at a depth of 3008 metres in the Weddell Sea.

It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation. We have made polar history with the discovery of Endurance, and successfully completed the world’s most challenging shipwreck search. “This is by far the finest wooden shipwreck I have ever seen. We were able to film the wreck in super high definition. It was surveyed using the latest tools and its position confirmed. The entire team aboard #Endurance22 are happy and a little exhausted!

The ship, called Endurance, was crushed by ice and sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915.

"We have also conducted an unprecedented educational outreach programme, with live broadcasting from on board, allowing new generations from around the world to engage with Endurance22 and become inspired by the amazing stories of polar exploration, and what human beings can achieve and the obstacles they can overcome when they work together." "We have made polar history with the discovery of Endurance, and successfully completed the world’s most challenging shipwreck search. Dr John Shears, the expedition leader, said of the success: " The Endurance22 expedition has reached its goal.

Polar explorer left stranded with 27 crew in wastes of Antarctica in 1915 after vessel trapped in pack ice.

“We shall have to eat the one who dies first,” one had written ominously in his journal of their ordeal. They would remain there until January 1917 and suffered three casualties: one man died of scurvy, two more simply disappeared into the whiteness, never to be seen again. It gave one a sickening sensation to see it, for, mastless and useless as she was, she seemed to be a link with the outside world. “What we were encountering was fairly dense pack of a very obstinate character.” Start your Independent Premium subscription today. “The wreck is coherent, in an astonishing state of preservation,” tweeted TV historian Dan Snow, part of the Endurance22 team. A national hero upon his return to Britain, Shackleton had little time for celebrity and swiftly volunteered to fight in France (his memoir is dedicated: “To my comrades who fell in the white warfare of the south and on the red fields of France and Flanders”). Sir Ernest and five of his men decided to set out again for South Georgia in the least damaged of the boats, which they dubbed the James Caird after their expedition’s original patron, leaving the remaining 22 members of their party behind huddled beneath the upturned hulls of the boats for shelter, their lives entirely in the hands of the scout party. She then gave one quick dive and the ice closed over her forever. Subsequently made a knight of the realm in honour of his exploits, the adventurer soon planned a third expedition, which was intended to see him become the first person to traverse the 1,800-mile length of Antarctica alongside his team from the Endurance and with the aid of a second ship, the Aurora, setting out from Australia for the south of the continent to provide support and supplies. The Endurance arrived on South Georgia in December 1914 with a view to crossing the Weddell Sea as summer dawned in the Southern Hemisphere, giving it the best possible chance of beating a path through the ice when it was at its weakest. The second, the Nimrod expedition of 1907-09, this time led by Shackleton himself, ventured even further but failed to reach the South Pole as intended (Norwegian Roald Amundsen would eventually become the first man to achieve that goal in 1911). However, it did see the first ascent of Mount Erebus, a giant volcano, and the discovery of the approximate location of the South Magnetic Pole, which Shackleton and his team reached on 16 January 1909.

Scientists have found one of the greatest ever undiscovered shipwrecks after it sank in the Antarctic 107 years ago, in what has been labelled the “world's ...

The Endurance has long been seen as one of the most unreachable shipwrecks in the world. Therefore getting anywhere near where the shipwreck was presumed to be, let alone conducting a search, is incredibly difficult. The name, Endurance, is still clearly visible on the stern. All attempts to spot it on the Antarctic seafloor have been fruitless. The voyage became stuff of legend, widely known for the amazing escape. But Endurance did not reach land and became trapped in dense pack ice, forcing the 28 men on board to eventually abandon ship.

An expedition that set out in search of the lost ship of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton has found it — 106 years after the vessel sank off Antarctica.

"We hope our discovery will engage young people and inspire them with the pioneering spirit, courage and fortitude of those who sailed Endurance to Antarctica," Bound said. You can see the ropes and the rigging. The crew made a new camp on an ice floe, and any ambition to cross Antarctica dissipated. But in January 1915, the Endurance became trapped in ice off the coast of Antarctica. On Oct. 27, 1915, Shackleton gave the order to abandon the Endurance. The men were told to gather no more than 2 pounds each of personal gear from the ship; much of the ship's supplies had already become inaccessible because of broken timbers in the hull. You can even see 'Endurance' arced across the stern," Bound said.

One hundred years after Shackleton's death, Endurance was found at a depth of 3008 metres in the Weddell Sea.

"In addition, we have undertaken important scientific research in a part of the world that directly affects the global climate and environment. I would also like to say thank you to The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, and all of our partners, especially in South Africa, who have played a vital role in the success of the expedition.” We have made polar history with the discovery of Endurance, and successfully completed the world’s most challenging shipwreck search. It was surveyed using the latest tools and its position confirmed. The entire team aboard #Endurance22 are happy and a little exhausted! We were able to film the wreck in super high definition.

Ernest Shackleton's ship HMS Endurance was discovered 107 years after sinking, but who was Shackleton himself?

Unfortunately, Shackleton died at Grytviken, South Georgia, at the outset of the journey in 1922. After then sailing 800 miles to South Georgia, Shackleton was able to rescue his crew through four separate relief expeditions, and amazingly none of his crew died in the whole ordeal. The Endurance22 expedition was able to locate the ship, which was found at a depth of 3,008 metres in the Weddell Sea.

The Endurance ship not been seen since the ship went down in the Weddell Sea in 1915 after Ernest Shackleton's expedition.

“It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation. It is in excellent condition, particularly considering it has spent more than a century underwater. In February, a month after the 100th anniversary of Sir Ernest’s death, the Endurance22 Expedition set off from Cape Town, South Africa on a mission to locate it. The Endurance was used by Sir Ernest and his crew on his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, which planned to make the first ever land crossing of Antarctica. The Endurance sank after becoming trapped by sea ice off the coast of Antarctica. Sir Ernest and his crew managed to make a miraculous escape using small boats and by clambering over ice. The Endurance, the lost ship of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, has been found 107 years after it sank.

The vessel, described by the exploration director as the “finest wooden shipwreck I've ever seen”, was found 3,000 metres underwater in the Weddell Sea, roughly ...