Endurance is a three-masted barkentin , one of two ships that took part in the Imperial Transantarctic expedition .
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| Endurance | |
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| Launched | December 17, 1912 |
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| Upper Deck Length | 43.8 m |
| Height | 7.62 m |
February 21, 1915 "Endurance" was at the southernmost point of its path - 76 ° 58 'y. sh., then began to drift north [1] . Already in April, ice shifts began.
On September 30, Endurance suffered the most severe ice compressions during the entire expedition. On October 24, the strong pressure of ice from the starboard led to the destruction of the wooden structure and the formation of holes [2] . Supplies and three boats were unloaded on ice. For three days the team fought for the life of the ship, pumping water out of the holds at −27 ° C and trying to bring the patch . On October 27, Shackleton ordered the evacuation of the ice to begin. The ship was at 69 ° 05'y. W, 51 ° 30'Z. d. [3] . The wreckage remained afloat for several more weeks, which allowed to extract many left things.
Notes
- ↑ Huntford, 1985 , p. 418.
- ↑ Shackleton, 1983 , p. 72-73.
- ↑ Shackleton, 1983 , p. 74-75.
Literature
- Caroline Alexander. The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition. - London: Bloomsbury Publications, 1998 .-- ISBN 0-7475-4123-X .
- Lennard Bickel. 'Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tale of an Antarctic Tragedy. - London: Pimlico Press, 2001. - ISBN 0-7126-6807-1 .
- Margery and James Fisher. Shackleton. - London: James Barrie Books, 1957.
- Stephen Haddelsey. Ice Captain. - Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2008 .-- ISBN 0-7509-4348-3 .
- Roland Huntford. Shackleton. - London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1985 .-- ISBN 0-340-25007-0 .
- Lief Mills. Frank Wild - Whitby, Yorkshire: Caedmon of Whitby, 1999 .-- ISBN 0-905355-48-2 .
- David Thomas Murphy. German Exploration of the Polar World: a History, 1870–1940. - Lincoln .: University of Nebraska Press, 2002 .-- ISBN 0-8032-3205-5 .
- Ernest Shackleton. South - London: Century Publishing, 1983. - ISBN 0-7126-0111-2 .
- Kelly Tyler-Lewis. The Lost Men. - London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007 .-- ISBN 978-0-7475-7972-4 .
- Shackleton, Ernest. South! The story of Shackleton's last expedition (1914-1917). - eBook, 2014. - ISBN none.