Endurance ship

The British Film Institute BFI has restored footage taken during Ernest Shackletons Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition including the poignant moment the. Disaster struck in October 1915 when the ice contracted and the ship was crushed with water now flooding in to the lower areas of the ship.

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The Endurance - Ships of the Polar Explorers The ship that was to be renamed Endurance was built originally for tourist cruises in the Arctic by a partnership between Lars Christensen a Norwegian ship owner and the Belgian Adrien de Gerlache leader of the Belgian Antarctic expedition in 1897-99 and called the Polaris.

. Three years later she was crushed by pack ice and sank in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica. The Expedition in more detail. Despite futile efforts to pump the water out and repair the damage Shackleton gave the order to abandon ship on 27th October with the entire crew now beset on the ice.

All of her crew survived. Its main purpose for being in the region was to study the. The search for Shackletons ship was an extra for the Weddell Sea Expedition 2019.

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 ExpeditionShe was launched in 1912 from Sandefjord in Norway. The Endurance finally sank on 21st.

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