Five of the Personnel of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition were older, including Shackleton. However, McNish was 40 years old when the expedition started. Lansing also states that McNish was more than twice the average age of the rest of the crew. Endurance captain Frank Worsley and expedition leader Ernest Shackleton watch. Some months later it is informed to be 57. The port side of the Endurance, pictured October 19, 1915, shortly before the ship was crushed by pack ice and sank. Lansing consistently calls him “old McNish”, giving his age at the start of the expedition, in 1914, to be 56 years. The carpenter, Harry McNish, was a crucial part of the expedition and a member of the six men crew that sailed to South Georgia for help. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage. Alexander Macklin, one of the ship's surgeons, who provided Lansing with many diaries, a detailed account of the perilous journey the crew made to Elephant Island, and months of advice. Hodder & Stoughton) Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, is a 1959 book written by Alfred Lansing, about the failure of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton, in its attempt to cross the Antarctic continent in 1914. The most significant contribution came from Dr. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage. Virtually every diary kept during the expedition was made available to the author, and almost all the surviving members at the time of writing submitted to lengthy interviews. Three months later, he was finally able to rescue the remaining crew members they had left behind on Elephant Island. He then took two of those men on the first successful overland crossing of the island. Shackleton then led a crew of five aboard the James Caird through the Drake Passage, and miraculously reached South Georgia Island 650 nautical miles away. The Endurance 22 expedition set out from Cape Town in February, hoping to make the discovery in the 100th anniversary year of Shackleton’s death. They were able to launch their boats and somehow managed to land them safely on Elephant Island. He launched one more expedition to the Antarctic, but the Endurance veterans who rejoined him noticed he appeared weaker, more diffident, drained of the spirit that had kept them alive. All in all, the crew drifted on the ice for just over a year. Ernest Shackleton never did reach the South Pole or crossed Antarctica. The ship was beset and eventually crushed by ice floes in the Weddell Sea, leaving the men stranded on the pack ice. Adrift on the Antarctic pack ice with no means of escape and no hope of rescue, Ernest Shackleton and his. By January 1915, the vessel was stuck in pack ice, and. Shackletons Endurance: An Antarctic Survival Story. The book details the almost two-year struggle for survival endured by the twenty-eight man crew of the ship Endurance. The Endurance left Plymouth, England, in August 1914 with a crew of 26 Shackleton and second-in-command Frank Wild joined the ship later. Over a century after it sank to the depths of the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica, the lost ship of Anglo Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton has been found. He added: "This is a milestone in polar history.Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, is a 1959 book written by Alfred Lansing, about the failure of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton, in its attempt to cross the Antarctic continent in 1914. It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation," Mensun Bound, director of exploration, said in a statement. The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackletons 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age. "This is by far the finest wooden shipwreck I have ever seen. The discovery was a collaboration between the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and History Hit, the content platform co-founded by historian Dan Snow. Endurance was discovered after it disappeared under Antarctic sea ice more than a century ago. The ship, which sank in 1915, is 3,008 meters (1.9 miles or 9,842 feet) deep in the Weddell Sea, a pocket in the Southern Ocean along the northern coast of Antarctica, south of the Falkland Islands. More than a century after it sank off the coast of Antarctica, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship HMS Endurance has been located, apparently intact and in good condition.
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