The expedition to find the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance is set to sail next month, it was announced today on the centenary of the polar explorer’s death.
Endurance was one of two ships used by the Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914–1917, which hoped to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic.
Carrying an expedition crew of 28 men, the 144-foot-long Endurance was a three-masted schooner barque sturdily built for operations in polar waters.
Aiming to land at