"Which explorer sailed on the ""Endurance""?"
"to the Southern Ocean. The fledgling ship's officer recalled that after considerable effort he had settled his affairs and reported aboard the ship, which then sailed 30 minutes after his arrival. The expedition's overall commander was the explorer Ernest Shackleton, and the goal of the ""Endurance"" was Vahsel Bay on the coast of Antarctica, from which Shackleton and the shore party hoped to cross the icy continent by dogsled; but on 18 January 1915, a few miles short of this destination, the ship was beset by ice and frozen into heavy pack from which she would not emerge. Greenstreet's duties"
"explorer, was unveiled in Kinsale in September 2000. Timothy McCarthy (sailor) Timothy 'Tim' McCarthy (15 July 1888 – 16 March 1917) was an Irish able seaman (AB). He is best known for his service in the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1916, for which he was awarded the Bronze Polar Medal. McCarthy was born on 15 July 1888 in Kinsale, Ireland. He signed on the ""Endurance"" as an able seaman, and participated fully in the dangers and privations of the Weddell Sea, particularly after the ""Endurance"" sank and the ship's company and shore party were marooned on a nearby ice floe."
"was in doubt until the last minute. Within the party only Mackintosh and Joyce had any previous Antarctic experience; Mackintosh had lost an eye as the result of an accident during the ""Nimrod"" expedition and had gone home early. ""Endurance"", without Shackleton (who was detained in England by expedition business), left Plymouth on 8 August 1914, heading first for Buenos Aires. Here Shackleton, who had travelled on a faster ship, rejoined the expedition. Hurley also came on board, together with Bakewell and the stowaway, Blackborow, while several others left the ship or were discharged. On 26 October the ship sailed"
"The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition The Endurance is a 2000 documentary film directed by George Butler about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition in 1914. ""The Endurance"" was the name of the ship of Shackleton's expedition. After failing to be the first to reach the South pole by only 97 miles in 1909, Shackleton set out to be the first to cross the Antarctic continent via the pole. The expedition met disastrous results when its ship became trapped and ultimately crushed in the ice pack. Shackleton and his 28-man crew endured the long polar winter before ultimately finding rescue following"
"to recommend Holness for this honor are unknown. Ernest Holness Albert Ernest Holness (born 7 December 1892 (Kingston-upon-Hull), died 20 September 1924 (at sea)) was an English marine engine stoker. He is best known for his service in the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1916. Holness was born on 7 December 1892 in Kingston-upon-Hull. At age 21 in 1914, he signed articles and shipped aboard the ""Endurance"" as a tender of the coal fire maintained on the vessel. Although the ""Endurance"" was rigged as a barquentine, it also had a coal-burning engine and spent much of its time under steam. Working"
"of them, or after the briefest of interrogations. Shackleton also loosened some traditional hierarchies, expecting all men, including the scientists, to take their share of ship's chores. He ultimately selected a crew of 56, twenty-eight on each ship. Despite the outbreak of the First World War on 3 August 1914, ""Endurance"" was directed by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, to ""proceed"", and left British waters on 8 August. Shackleton delayed his own departure until 27 September, meeting the ship in Buenos Aires. While Shackleton led the expedition, Captain F. Worsley commanded the ""Endurance"" and Lieutenant J. Stenhouse"
"Frank Worsley Frank Arthur Worsley (22 February 1872 – 1 February 1943) was a New Zealand sailor and explorer who served on Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1916, as captain of the ""Endurance"". He also served in the Royal Navy Reserve during the First World War. Born in Akaroa, New Zealand, on 22 February 1872, Worsley joined the New Zealand Shipping Company in 1888. He served aboard several vessels running trade routes between New Zealand, England and the South Pacific. While on South Pacific service, he became renowned for his ability to navigate to tiny, remote islands. He joined"
"ENDURANCE ENDURANCE (Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic Antarctic Explorer) is an autonomous underwater vehicle designed to map in three dimensions the geochemistry and biology of underwater terrains in Antarctica. The vehicle was built and designed by Stone Aerospace, and is the second incarnation of the DEPTHX vehicle, which was significantly reconfigured for the challenges particular to the Antarctic environment. The principal investigator for the ENDURANCE project was Earth and environmental scientist Peter Doran of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Bill Stone, CEO of Stone Aerospace, was a co-investigator, along with John Priscu of Montana State University, and Chris McKay of"
"William Lincoln Bakewell William Lincoln Bakewell (November 26, 1888 – May 21, 1969) was the only American aboard the ""Endurance"" during the 1914 to 1916 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition with Sir Ernest Shackleton. William Bakewell joined the ""Endurance"" crew in Buenos Aires, Argentina along with friend Perce Blackborow. Bakewell was hired on as an Able Seaman. Bakewell's adventures, including his time on board the ""Endurance"", are documented in his own words in his memoir ""The American on the Endurance"". He was born on November 26, 1888 in Joliet, Illinois. From 1914 to 1916 he participated in the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. In"
"as far as South Georgia. As his second-in-command, Shackleton chose Frank Wild, who had been with him on both the ""Discovery"" and ""Nimrod"" expeditions, and was one of the Furthest South party in 1909. Wild had just returned from Mawson's Australian Antarctic Expedition. To captain ""Endurance"" Shackleton had wanted John King Davis, who had commanded ""Aurora"" during the Australian Antarctic Expedition. Davis refused, thinking the enterprise was ""foredoomed"", so the appointment went to Frank Worsley, who claimed to have applied to the expedition after learning of it in a dream. Royal Navy Chief Petty Officer Tom Crean, who had been"
"Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage is a bestselling book written by Alfred Lansing. It was first published in 1959. The book recounts the failure of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton in its attempt to cross the Antarctic continent in 1914 and the subsequent struggle for survival endured by the twenty-eight man crew for almost two years. The book's title refers to the ship Shackleton used for the expedition, the ""Endurance"". The ship was beset and eventually crushed by ice floes in the Weddell Sea leaving the men stranded on the pack ice. All"
"Alfred Lansing Alfred Lansing (July 21, 1921 – January 1, 1975) was an American journalist and writer, best known for his book ""Endurance"" (1959), an account of Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic explorations. Lansing was a native of Chicago, Illinois. After serving in the U.S. Navy from 1940–46, where he received a Purple Heart, he enrolled at North Park College and later at Northwestern University, where he majored in journalism. Until 1949 he edited a weekly newspaper in Illinois. Thereafter he joined the United Press and in 1952 became a freelance writer. Lansing is best known for his book ""Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible"
"son Angus. Alfred Lansing Alfred Lansing (July 21, 1921 – January 1, 1975) was an American journalist and writer, best known for his book ""Endurance"" (1959), an account of Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic explorations. Lansing was a native of Chicago, Illinois. After serving in the U.S. Navy from 1940–46, where he received a Purple Heart, he enrolled at North Park College and later at Northwestern University, where he majored in journalism. Until 1949 he edited a weekly newspaper in Illinois. Thereafter he joined the United Press and in 1952 became a freelance writer. Lansing is best known for his book ""Endurance:"
"inhospitable place, far from any shipping routes; rescue by means of chance discovery was very unlikely. Consequently, Shackleton decided to risk an open-boat journey to the 720-nautical-mile-distant South Georgia whaling stations, where he knew help was available. The strongest of the tiny lifeboats, christened ""James Caird"" after the expedition's chief sponsor, was chosen for the trip. Ship's carpenter Harry McNish made various improvements, including raising the sides, strengthening the keel, building a makeshift deck of wood and canvas, and sealing the work with oil paint and seal blood. Shackleton chose five companions for the journey: Frank Worsley, ""Endurance""'s captain, who"
"from the ship. However, it belonged to the 1877 wreck of the Connecticut sealing ship ""Charles Shearer"". In 2001, wreck hunter David Mearns unsuccessfully planned an expedition to find the wreck of ""Endurance"". By 2003, two rival groups were making plans for an expedition to find the wreck; however no expedition was actually mounted. In 2010, Mearns announced a new plan to search for the wreck. The plan is sponsored by the National Geographic Society but is subject to finding sponsorship for the balance of the US$10 million estimated cost. A 2013 study by Dr Adrian Glover of the Natural"
"ports around the World, and continued to give these lectures after retiring from the Navy in 1931. He became a Fire Watcher during World War II within the city of Hull. Green was one of the last surviving members of the ""Endurance"" crew, and attended the 50th Anniversary reunion in 1964 with the two remaining survivors. Charles Green (cook) Charles Green (24 November 1888 – 26 September 1974), also known as Charlie Green, was a British ship's cook, who took part in Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition as the cook for the Weddell sea party on board the ""Endurance""."
"Voyage"", the account of the failed Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew to the South Pole in 1914. The book is named after the ship used by Shackleton, the Endurance, and it became a bestseller when it was first published in 1959. Whilst researching the book, Lansing spoke with ten of the expedition's surviving members and was granted access to the journals and personal diaries of eight others in order to get a more complete view of the expedition. While he was writing ""Endurance"", Lansing lived in Sea Cliff, Long Island with his wife, Barbara, and"
"This non-fiction narrative details the 1914-1916 expedition to Antarctica led by Sir Ernest Shackleton on the Endurance. His vessel was shipwrecked and frozen on ice for 10 months until pressure finally crushed it. The crew camped on the ice for five months before crossing the open in two open boats to South Georgia Island. The book contains more than 40 vintage photographs taken during the expedition. For her writing and research Armstrong was selected as an Orbis Pictus Award winner. Armstrong edited and contributed one piece (""Witness"") to this collection, which features works by Ibtisam Barakat, Joseph Bruchac, Lisa Rowe"
"the ""Endurance"", adapted by Harry McNish, and sailed from Elephant Island to South Georgia during Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1916 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Many historians consider the feat of the crew of ""James Caird"" to be the most impressive of all global navigation. ""Ancud"" was the ship that, under an 1843 mandate of the President of Chile, Manuel Bulnes, claimed the Strait of Magellan on behalf of Chile's newly independent government, building Fort Bulnes. Commander of the schooner was Captain John Williams Wilson. , a British Navy brig-sloop, was converted into an exploration vessel. The most famous of her three trips"
"Ernest Holness Albert Ernest Holness (born 7 December 1892 (Kingston-upon-Hull), died 20 September 1924 (at sea)) was an English marine engine stoker. He is best known for his service in the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1916. Holness was born on 7 December 1892 in Kingston-upon-Hull. At age 21 in 1914, he signed articles and shipped aboard the ""Endurance"" as a tender of the coal fire maintained on the vessel. Although the ""Endurance"" was rigged as a barquentine, it also had a coal-burning engine and spent much of its time under steam. Working under the orders issued by chief engineer Lewis"
"John Vincent (sailor) John William Vincent (24 January 1884 – 19 January 1941) was an English seaman and member of Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. He was one of the five men who accompanied Shackleton on his epic crossing from Elephant Island to South Georgia and was one of only four of the crew of ""Endurance"" not to receive the Polar Medal. Vincent was born in Birmingham on 24 January 1884. He became a sailor at the age of 13, and later became a trawlerman working in the North Sea fleet out of Hull. At the time, trawling was one"
"in expedition and scientific discovery was heightened by these two men. In 1914, Wordie joined Sir Ernest Shackleton's expedition to the Antarctic, known as the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, where he acted as geologist and chief of scientific staff. Despite the overall failure of the expedition—including the beset ship ""Endurance"", caught up in the Weddell Sea until destroyed by ice in 1915—Wordie maintained the morale of the expedition, made scientific observations regarding oceanography and the ice pack, and acquired important geological specimens. He was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Back Award in 1920. Wordie sailed on nine polar expeditions, including Endurance."
"sells a diverse range of paints and coatings for all kind of industries. Ole Aanderud Larsen Ole Aanderud Larsen (December 18, 1884 – October 6, 1964) was a ship designer and businessman from Norway. Larsen was born in Tønsberg and died in Sandefjord, in the county of Vestfold. Larsen is best known for designing the ""Endurance,"" the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed for the Antarctic on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914. Larsen was the first chairman and one of the founders of Jotun Group Private Ltd., a company started by Odd Gleditsch to sell specialized paints"
"Sea. The changing conditions of the Antarctic spring brought such pressure that broke the hull of ""Endurance"" over the period from 27 October 1915, causing flooding of interior spaces. On the morning of 21 November 1915, ""Endurance""'s superstructure began to break and her timbers began snapping and thus she had to be abandoned. The crew remained on the ice for several more weeks, and when the ice pack broke up they used ""Endurance""'s three lifeboats to reach Elephant Island. Twenty-two men waited while Shackleton and five others took the largest of the lifeboats, ""James Caird"", and sailed to South Georgia"
"this time under the command of Ernest Shackleton, on the Nimrod Expedition where he was third officer and boatswain. By the time of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914, the 48-year-old Cheetham was the crew member with most experience of the Antarctic, having spent almost six years in the seas around the continent He was Third Officer on board the ""Endurance"" and was a popular and cheerful member of the crew. Frank Worsley refers to him as ""a pirate to his fingertips"". After ""Endurance"" was crushed in pack ice and the men set up for Elephant Island in the three"
"Walter How Walter Ernest How (25 December 1885 – 5 August 1972) was an Able Seaman who took part in Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition to the South Pole, from 1914-1917. Born in Bermondsey, London, Walter became a sailor at 12 years old. He married Helen Varey in 1913, and his first daughter was born only six weeks before his departure upon the ""Endurance"". When the Endurance made a stop at Buenos Aires en route to the Antarctica, How, along with Bakewell, helped smuggle Perce Blackborow on board as a stowaway. After the Endurance sank, trapped in the sea ice"
"to obtain rescue for the rest of the crew. Shackleton arrived at the whaling station on South Georgia Island two weeks later, but because the whaling ships were not equipped to penetrate Antarctic sea ice it took Shackleton three months before he successfully approached Elephant Island in August 1916 and rescued the rest of his crew on his third attempted rescue mission. The crew of ""Endurance"" in her final voyage was made up of the 28 men listed below: Nationalities. All the crew were born and resident in England before the expedition, except for the following: Blackborrow was originally refused"
"Ole Aanderud Larsen Ole Aanderud Larsen (December 18, 1884 – October 6, 1964) was a ship designer and businessman from Norway. Larsen was born in Tønsberg and died in Sandefjord, in the county of Vestfold. Larsen is best known for designing the ""Endurance,"" the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed for the Antarctic on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914. Larsen was the first chairman and one of the founders of Jotun Group Private Ltd., a company started by Odd Gleditsch to sell specialized paints and coatings to the shipping industry. Jotun has since expanded worldwide and now"
"Services Expedition led by Commander Malcolm Burley was dropped off on Elephant Island by HMS Endurance. The party then spent six months carrying out a survey of the island and other scientific research for the British Antarctic Survey and climbing some of the peaks on the island. The expedition visited Point Wild but found no trace of the ""Endurance"" expedition; it found the wreckage of the large sailing vessel referred to below, and also landed on and climbed the highest peak on Clarence Island. Point Wild contains the Endurance Memorial Site, an Antarctic Historic Site (HSM 53), with a bust"
"Harry McNish Henry McNish (11 September 187424 September 1930), often referred to as Harry McNeish or by the nickname Chippy, was the carpenter on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917. He was responsible for much of the work that ensured the crew's survival after their ship, the ""Endurance"", was destroyed when it became trapped in pack ice in the Weddell Sea. He modified the small boat, ""James Caird"", that allowed Shackleton and five men (including McNish) to make a voyage of hundreds of miles to fetch help for the rest of the crew. After the expedition he returned"
"compelling scientific endeavors. The legacy on ENDURANCE is being applied now to SPINDLE cryobot. ENDURANCE ENDURANCE (Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic Antarctic Explorer) is an autonomous underwater vehicle designed to map in three dimensions the geochemistry and biology of underwater terrains in Antarctica. The vehicle was built and designed by Stone Aerospace, and is the second incarnation of the DEPTHX vehicle, which was significantly reconfigured for the challenges particular to the Antarctic environment. The principal investigator for the ENDURANCE project was Earth and environmental scientist Peter Doran of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Bill Stone, CEO of Stone Aerospace, was"
"Nova"" Expedition. His wife Mary died in 1905. Nares died at home aged 83 at Kingston upon Thames, on 15 January 1915 and was buried in Long Ditton churchyard. Among others, the following features are named after Nares: George Nares Vice-Admiral Sir George Strong Nares (24 April 1831 – 15 January 1915) was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. He commanded the first ship to pass through the Suez Canal, the ""Challenger"" Expedition, and the British Arctic Expedition. He was highly thought of as a leader and scientific explorer. In later life he worked for the Board of"
"Perseverance (1801 EIC ship) Perseverance was launched in 1801 as an East Indiaman. She made seven voyages for the British East India Company (EIC), before she was sold in 1819 for breaking up. Captain James Tweedale was master of ""Perseverance"" for her first five voyages. ""Perseverance"" sailed from Portsmouth on 25 February 1802, bound for Madras and China. She arrived at Madras on 15 June. She reached Penang on 1 August and Malacca on 24 August, and arrived at Whampoa on 16 September. Homeward bound, she crossed the Second Bar on 22 November, reached St Helena on 25 February, and"