Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic

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[caww]

Here's the camera and Hurley.....plus great shot of the boat.

Hurley is shown taking a photo with his heavy equipment - under the prow of Endurance and standing on big chunks of crumbling ice.

[caww]

This story was one of the best if not the best Books I’ve ever read on human survival...and mans determination....stunning read.

[caww]

Here, outside their tent on the ice, Hurley on the left and Shackleton on the right.

Hurley is cutting fine strips of seal blubber - fuel for the portable stove which sits between them, and which he invented.

"It was also endlessly wet," says Hooper. "And when the right day came - with some wind and some sunshine - they tried to dry all their stuff."

[caww]

Hurley was forced to become more selective with his subject matter as time went on - and in the end he destroyed 400 of his negatives, keeping only 120, of which the Royal Geographical Society now looks after 68.

By April 1916, in three small boats which had been taken off Endurance, Shackleton and his crew left the floating ice and started an arduous voyage to uninhabited Elephant Island.

[caww]

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This Frank Hurley's beautiful image of Endurance confuses people because the sails are up,"...

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"And yet she is beset in the ice. The sails are up because they had reached a moment when the crew thought they could break free."

[caww]

This Frank Hurley's beautiful image of Endurance confuses people because the sails are up,"...

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"And yet she is beset in the ice. The sails are up because they had reached a moment when the crew thought they could break free."

[caww]

This Frank Hurley's beautiful image of Endurance confuses people because the sails are up,"...

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"And yet she is beset in the ice. The sails are up because they had reached a moment when the crew thought they could break free."

[caww]

Come back to the thread as I posted some great photos.

I read the book about Shackleton's Journey and would have never imagined I could be so engrossed with this type of History, but it was a riveting read.

[Big Red Badger]

Fascinating,
A “Lewis and Clark” moment
if Possible.
Thanks!

[Redleg Duke]

It’ll buff out nicely!

[BlueLancer]

Here, a group of men are gathered around the ship's stove during the night watch. "There would normally be only one or two men on the night watch," says Hooper. "But people on that shift got extra food, and so your mates would suddenly appear.

Ahhh, yes ... I remember MIDRATS aboard USS CORONADO (LPD 11). I'd set my alarm clock to wake me up so that I could go get some extra eats if I was hungry ...

[moovova]

Incredible photos, incredible story.

[HonkyTonkMan]

Thank you for posting these magnificent photos and descriptions, caww. This is a story for the ages. Endurance is aptly named.

[lodi90]

Wow. Thanks for posting.

[M Kehoe]

Thanks.

5.56mm

[meowmeow]

Bfl...remarkable story. They don’t make men like that any more.

[JohnBovenmyer]

If ever required to justify our existence as a species I’d point to this survival story. Having the ship so named found in such condition one century exactly after the Boss’s funeral is the perfect coda for the story. Hard to deny the hand of the ‘fourth man’ they all felt crossing South Georgia with them, still looking after this story.