#ernest shackleton
The wreck of the steam-yacht Endurance, which famously sank in 1915 during an Antarctic expedition by the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, has been rediscovered by searchers using autonomous underwater vehicles.
The shipwreck was found at a depth of 9,869 feet (3,008 meters) beneath West Antarctica’s Weddell Sea, according to the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust (FMHT), which sponsored the search.
That’s only about 4 nautical miles (7 km) south of the location fixed by the ship’s captain, Frank Worsley, who used a sextant to record the position of its sinking after several months of the ship being surrounded and eventually crushed by ice. Read more.
And it’s not even April Fools Day! (Working on a thing … for some cool folks …)
If this makes you want a graphic novel about the Endurance, good news: there are several!
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Feeling the cold? Perhaps you need an Avondale Heating Stove.
“Leaving the Wreck” and “In Winter Quarters” trade cards published by J.H.Bufford’s Sons in the late 19th century. Both of these items may be found in the Charles E. Brownell Collection of Architectural and Decorative Ephemera (M439), Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library.
With all the excitement surrounding the discovery of Ernest Shackleton’s ship “Endurance,” we thought we’d share these icy trade cards again, though we’re not certain when they were printed or what shipwreck they depict.
In January, 1915, the Endurance became trapped in ice, which began to slowly crush the wooden ship. On Oct. 27, 1915, Shackleton gave the order to abandon the Endurance, and one month later the ship sank into the Weddell Sea.
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Endurance: Shackleton’s lost ship is found in Antarctic
:-O . Actually in pretty good shape (I thought that ship was totally crusged by ice)
British Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, Grytviken Cemetery, Grytviken, South Georgia Island.
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second-to-last batch of @terrebus-fcdoodles for #theterrortober event on twitter! as always you can also find these on my dedicated terror twitter @sizeofacherry
The Endurance trapped in pack ice.
Photographed by Frank Hurley, between January-October, 1915.
Colored by Lombardie Colorings.
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