The 'Endurance' leaning to one side, during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-17, led by Sir Ernest Shackleton. “Comparison with other early wooden polar ships is not favourable for ...

Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, Endurance, was crushed by Antarctic sea ice and sank in November 1915. Emblematic of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, it is widely considered the strongest polar ...

Endurance is shown in the winter of 1915. The ship became stuck in ice and eventually sank. A new paper says it wasn't as well-built as previously believed. A new research paper about the vessel ...

"She was doomed, no ship built by human hands could have withstood the strain."When polar explorer Ernest Shackleton wrote this journal entry on October 27, 1915, his dreams of reaching Antarctica had ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The Antarctic Ocean’s brutal conditions ultimately doomed Ernest ...

A world-first study reveals the famed polar explorer was aware of worrying structural shortcomings in the ill-fated ship — Endurance was not designed for compressive ice conditions — yet it set sail ...