Here Shackleton, who had travelled on a faster ship, rejoined the expedition. ; In 1908–1909, he was a member of Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition and was a member of the team that crossed the Ross Barrier and Beardmore Glacier at a record latitude of 88º23'S. He was perhaps best known for his 1914–16 expedition, in which his ship, Endurance, was crushed by pack ice and the crew endured months of hardship before being rescued. [100] This policy led to sharp disagreements with Thomas Orde-Lees, the storekeeper, who was not a popular man and whose presence apparently did little to improve the morale of his companions, unless it was by way of being the butt of their jokes. There was no sign of any such land; Shackleton concluded that Morrell had been deceived by the presence of large icebergs. [13] For a further £3,200 (current value £309,000), he acquired Douglas Mawson's expedition ship Aurora, which was lying in Hobart, Tasmania. On 11 December 1911, a German expedition under Wilhelm Filchner had sailed from South Georgia, intending to penetrate deep into the Weddell Sea and establishing a base from which he would cross the continent to the Ross Sea. Gran was evasive, and Rosebery blunt: "I have never been able to care one farthing about the Poles". On 29 September 2016, a statue of Wild was unveiled in his hometown of Skelton-in-Cleveland. In the 2000s, while journalist and author Angie Butler was researching a book about Wild she discovered his ashes were still in a vault at Braamfontein Cemetery. Wild's younger brother Ernest Wild also went on to become a Royal Naval seaman and Antarctic explorer, receiving a Polar Medal. Without a map, the route they chose was largely conjectural. [82], The 22.5-foot (6.9 m) James Caird was launched on 24 April 1916. [8] Of Wild, Paul Rose has said: "He was a true great. The first journey on the ice resulted in the loss of ten of the party's 18 dogs and a frostbitten and generally demoralised shore party; a single, incomplete depot was their only achievement. On 27 November 2011, the ashes of Frank Wild, Shackleton's "right-hand man", were interred on the right-hand side of Shackleton's grave site in Grytviken, South Georgia. [87], Their destination was the whaling station at Stromness, which had been the last port of call of the Endurance on their outbound journey. [10], Shackleton called his new expedition the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, because he felt that "not only the people of these islands, but our kinsmen in all the lands under the Union Jack will be willing to assist towards the carrying out of the ... programme of exploration. They are available from the Falkland Islands Philatelic Bureau. 1. [21], According to legend, Shackleton posted an advertisement in a London paper, stating: "Men wanted for hazardous journey. [75], On 14 April, the boats lay off the south-east coast of Elephant Island, but could not land as the shore consisted of perpendicular cliffs and glaciers. Shackleton commented: "I had been prepared for evil conditions in the Weddell Sea, but had hoped that the pack would be loose. A supporting group, the Ross Sea party, would meanwhile establish camp in McMurdo Sound, and from there lay a series of supply depots across the Ross Ice Shelf to the foot of the Beardmore Glacier. The 1901 census shows that at that time, aged 27, he was serving as an able seaman on HMS Edinburgh, anchored in Sheerness Harbour. When the expedition ship is crushed; Worsley's seamanship and navigational skills saves them all. [30] Two Nimrod veterans were assigned to the Ross Sea party: Mackintosh who commanded it, and Ernest Joyce. Shackleton and his men did not know that during their two-year absence in Antarctica, the station's owners had begun year-round operations.[88]. After Amundsen's South Pole expedition in 1911, this crossing remained, in Shackleton's words, the "one great main object of Antarctic journeyings". In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew set off for Antarctica with the goal of crossing the continent. RMG F6220.tiff 3,800 × 3,388; 36.83 MB [40] On 15 January, Endurance came abreast of a great glacier, the edge of which formed a bay which appeared a good landing place. From the Endurance crew, Wild, Worsley, Macklin, McIlroy, Hussey, Alexander Kerr, Thomas McLeod and cook Charles Green, all sailed with Quest. Then, with the help of the British Minister in Montevideo, Shackleton obtained from the Uruguayan government the loan of a tough trawler, Instituto de Pesca No. Frank Worsley is best known as the captain of the Endurance on Shackleton's ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914, but he led a full and very interesting life that included searching for treasure and sinking a German U-boat during WWI. On the other side of the continent, the Ross Sea party overcame great hardships to fulfil its mission. [45] However, as winter set in the speed of the drift increased, and the condition of the surrounding ice changed. The film gives us an accurate, rather than a popular sensationalist account, of the adventure in which Shackleton is revealed to be not as big a hero as he has been made out to be. [13] He did not believe in appeals to the public: "(they) cause endless book-keeping worries". It was apparent from high tide markings that this beach would not serve as a long-term camp,[76] so the next day Wild and a crew set off in the Stancomb Wills to explore the coast for a safer site. Before reaching the coast, the ship became frozen in pack ice, and was crushed. Cape Wild and Point Wild on Elephant Island in the Antarctic are named after him, as is Mount Wild in the Queen Alexandra Range and Mount Wild in Graham Land. [5] In late 1912 Filchner returned to South Georgia, having failed to land and set up his base. Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands was closer than South Georgia, but could not be reached, as this would require sailing against the strong prevailing winds. The surrounding sea was dense with pack ice that would halt any rescue ship, food supplies were running out and no penguins were coming ashore. For more than four months, from 24 April to 30 August 1916, during the Antarctic winter, Wild and his crew waited on Elephant Island, surviving on a diet of seal, penguin and seaweed. Money was a constant problem for Shackleton, who as an economy measure halved the funding allocated to the Ross Sea party, a fact which the party's commander Aeneas Mackintosh only discovered when he arrived in Australia to take up his duties. Therefore, on 21 December he announced a second march, to begin on 23 December. [20] Shackleton had, however, realised the revenue-earning potential of the expedition. "In the meantime", he wrote, "we must wait". Frank Worsley shared with Sir Ernest Shackleton one of the greatest adventures of the Heroic Age of Antarctic explorartion. Shackleton informed the Morning Post that "this magnificent gift relieves me of all anxiety". [59] They gave the name "Ocean Camp" to the flat and solid-looking floe on which their aborted march had ended, and settled down to wait. During this relative lull the ship drifted into the area where, in 1823, Captain Benjamin Morrell of the sealer Wasp reported seeing a coastline which he identified as "New South Greenland". Next, Wild took a temporary job as a hotel barman at Gollel in Swaziland which was owned by a friend of his. [103], By 23 August, it seemed that Wild's no-stockpiling policy had failed. Shackleton, Worsley and Crean would undertake the land journey, the others remaining at what they christened "Peggotty Camp", to be picked up later after help had been obtained from the whaling stations. [56], Before the march could begin, Shackleton ordered the weakest animals to be shot, including the carpenter Harry McNish's cat, Mrs Chippy, and a pup which had become a pet of the surgeon Macklin. He was informed by the Admiralty that nothing was available before October, which in his view was too late. Soon afterwards, the three boats, which had been separated during the previous night, were reunited at this landing place. Aurora was blown from her moorings during a gale and was unable to return, leaving the shore party marooned without proper supplies or equipment. The peak of Mount Haddington on James Ross Island remained in view as the party drifted slowly by. Shackleton begged the Chilean Government to lend him Yelcho, a small steam tug that had assisted Emma during the previous attempt. The seas were open, and the ship was able to approach close to the island, in thick fog. [31] After pressing his case, Shackleton was given one officer from the Royal Marines, Captain Thomas Orde-Lees, who was Superintendent of Physical Training at the Marines training depot. The visual record of the expedition was the responsibility of its photographer Frank Hurley and its artist George Marston. [28], Endurance, without Shackleton (who was detained in England by expedition business), left Plymouth on 8 August 1914, heading first for Buenos Aires. [85], The arrival of the James Caird at King Haakon Bay was followed by a period of rest and recuperation, while Shackleton pondered the next move. The expedition required two ships: Endurance under Shackleton for the Weddell Sea party, and Aurora, under Aeneas Mackintosh, for the Ross Sea party. Captain Scott and Captain Shackleton: A 100 Year Old Expedition The return of the sun after 92 days. [12], How much money Shackleton raised to meet the total costs of the expedition (later estimated by the Daily Mail to be around £80,000)[16] is uncertain, since the size of the Stancomb-Wills donation is not known. He participated in five expeditions to Antarctica during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, for which he was awarded the Polar Medal with four bars, one of only two men to be so honoured, the other being Ernest Joyce. Shackleton had hoped that the Aurora would be staffed by a naval crew, and had asked the Admiralty for officers and men, but was turned down. [25] A temporary crewman was Sir Daniel Gooch, grandson of the renowned railway pioneer Daniel Gooch, who stepped in to help Shackleton as a dog handler at the last moment and signed up for an able seaman's pay. I know that during that long and racking march of 36 hours over the unnamed mountains and glaciers it seemed to me often that we were four, not three". Early next morning, 20 May, seeing Husvik Harbour below them, they knew that they were on the right path. Wild's marriage to Vera was in difficulty shortly after arriving in Zululand and she asked for a divorce, which became absolute on 27 December 1928. This was roughly 26 miles (40 km) away, across the edge of the Allardyce Range. When the timbers broke they made noises which sailors later described as being similar to the sound of "heavy fireworks and the blasting of guns". [46] Shackleton now considered the possibility of finding an alternative landing ground on the western shores of the Weddell Sea, if that coast could be reached. [96] Shackleton later named a glacier after McDonald on the Brunt Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea. The one with the year on the ice, and the whole deal where a malnourished and dyssentry-ridden Ernest Shackleton and two other guys ultimately rode in a dinky open lifeboat across 800 miles of stormy ocean, landed on an inhabited island but on the wrong … [113] The survivors eventually reached Cape Evans, but then had to wait for eight further months. Ernest Shackleton - Wikipedia An engrossing first person narrative by one of the 6 men that accomplished the amazing, hair-raising 800 mile voyage from Elephant Island to S. Georgia Island Page 5/29 Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton was born to Anglo-Irish parents on February 15, 1874 in Co. Kildare, Ireland, with the family moving to Sydenham in London 10 years later. [120] This occupied him until March 1919. However, he had little respect for Frost; that and the demands of building the house in an extremely remote part of the country caused him to return to Johannesburg. On returning to the United Kingdom in 1916, Wild volunteered for duty during World War I and was made a temporary lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. After the war, Wild went to South Africa, where he farmed in British Nyasaland with Francis Bickerton and James McIlroy, two former Antarctic comrades. Due to ill health, he was forced to leave the mining job and he was given a job by his brother-in-law Pat O'Brien Frost to oversee the building of Frost's house in Haenertsburg in the Eastern Transvaal. At the end of March Shackleton calculated that the ship had travelled a mere 95 miles (153 km) since 19 January. By 1875, the Wild family had moved from Skelton to Stickford in Lincolnshire, and in late 1880 moved again to Wheldrake near York.[3]. [19] Mackintosh was forced to haggle and plead for money and supplies to make his part of the expedition viable. [122] After his death the original programme, which had included an exploration of Enderby Land,[123] was abandoned. Wild took part in the following Antarctic expeditions: In 1901, he was a member of Robert Falcon Scott's crew as an able seaman on the Discovery, along with Ernest Shackleton, who was then a sub-lieutenant. With minimum delay the men returned to the boats and transferred to this new location, which they later christened Cape Wild. [35] On 26 October, the ship sailed for the South Atlantic, arriving in South Georgia on 5 November. During the following days there were more tussles with the pack, which, on 14 December, was thick enough to halt the ship for 24 hours. [116] The expedition returned home in piecemeal fashion, at a critical stage in the war, without the normal honours and civic receptions. John Robert Francis Wild CBE FRGS (18 April 1873 – 19 August 1939), known as Frank Wild, was an English sailor and explorer. The true story of Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the South Pole, and his epic struggle to lead his twenty-eight man crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice. Its advantage was that it was sometimes visited by whalers, and might contain provisions, whereas Clarence Island and Elephant Island were desolate and unvisited. [89] There was no question of rest—they travelled on by moonlight, moving upwards towards a gap in the next mountainous ridge. [83] The prevailing wind was helpfully north-west, but the heavy sea conditions quickly soaked everything in icy water. Hurley also came on board, together with Bakewell and the stowaway, Blackborow, while several others left the ship or were discharged. Finally, on 10 January 1917, the repaired and refitted Aurora, whose departure from New Zealand had been delayed by lack of money, arrived to transport them back to civilization;. The documentary film also featured commentary from polar historian Dr. Huw Lewis-Jones, author Francis Spufford and explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes. Last night we watched the recently restored footage that crewmember Frank Hurley shot during the epic Endurance polar expedition of 1914. A permanent lookout was kept for the arrival of the rescue ship, cooking and housekeeping rotas were established, and there were hunting trips for seal and penguin. Endurance became beset in the ice of the Weddell Sea before reaching Vahsel Bay, and drifted northward, held in the pack ice, throughout the Antarctic winter of 1915. On 2 February 1916, Shackleton sent a larger party back, to recover the third lifeboat. The condition of the James Caird, and the physical state of the party, particularly Vincent and McNish, meant that the crossing was the only realistic option. Thereafter she began moving with the pack in a northerly direction. Shackleton himself commanded the James Caird, Worsley the Dudley Docker, and navigating officer Hubert Hudson was nominally in charge of the Stancomb Wills, though because of his precarious mental state the effective commander was Tom Crean. Antarctica Edit. At the close of that first day, needing to descend to the valley below them before nightfall, they risked everything by sliding down a mountainside on a makeshift rope sledge. [62] It was about 250 miles (400 km) away, and Shackleton was anxious to reduce the length of the lifeboat journey that would be necessary to reach it. [121], Shackleton died of a heart attack on 5 January 1922, while Quest was anchored at South Georgia. Special occasions such as Empire Day were duly celebrated. [98] The priority for the party was a permanent shelter against the rapidly approaching southern winter. Frequently the boats were tied to floes, or dragged up onto them, while the men camped and waited for conditions to improve. The news of Amundsen's conquest of the South Pole reached Shackleton on 11 March 1912, to which he responded: "The discovery of the South Pole will not be the end of Antarctic exploration". The success of the voyage depended on the pin-point accuracy of Worsley's navigation, using observations that would have to be made in the most unfavourable of conditions. After months spent in makeshift camps as the ice continued its northwards drift, the party took to the lifeboats to reach the inhospitable, uninhabited Elephant Island. Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who attempted to reach the South Pole. The Weddell Sea party would travel in the Endurance and continue to the Vahsel Bay area, where fourteen men would land of whom six, under Shackleton, would form the Transcontinental Party. [68], The party now had land more or less continuously in sight. Some who left Britain for Australia to join Aurora resigned before it departed for the Ross Sea, and a full complement of crew was in doubt until the last minute. [56] He calculated that on the day Endurance was abandoned they were 346 miles (557 km) from Paulet Island. [125], Personnel of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Works about the Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Expedition&oldid=999051290, History of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 8 January 2021, at 07:14. [1], From 1921 to 1922, Wild was second-in-command of the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition, a poorly equipped expedition with no clear plan, and a small ship, the Quest. He first left South Georgia a mere three days after he had arrived in Stromness, after securing the use of a large whaler, The Southern Sky, which was laid up in Husvik Harbour. He subsidised his meagre income by giving the occasional lecture on the Endurance expedition. "[23], Eventually the crews for the two arms of the expedition were trimmed down to 28 apiece, including William Bakewell, who joined the ship in Buenos Aires, his friend Perce Blackborow who stowed away when his application was turned down,[24] and several last-minute appointments made to the Ross Sea party in Australia. [93], Shackleton's first task, on arriving at the Stromness station, was to arrange for his three companions at Peggoty Camp to be picked up. Several others were severely wounded, and many received decorations for gallantry. From there, Shackleton was eventually able to mount a rescue of the men waiting on Elephant Island and bring them home without loss of life. He acquired, for £14,000 (current value £1,350,000),[16][17] a 300-ton barquentine called Polaris, which had been built for the Belgian explorer Adrien de Gerlache for an expedition to Spitsbergen. If the party was to return to civilization it would be necessary to summon help. [41] The position was 76° 34′S, 31° 30′W. On 29 December 1913, having acquired his first promises of financial backing—a £10,000 grant from the British Government—Shackleton made his plans public, in a letter to The Times. A storm on 18 May delayed their start, but by two o'clock the following morning the weather was clear and calm, and an hour later the crossing party set out. He bought some land in the Mkuzi valley in Zululand where he tried to grow cotton. Against this gloomy background Shackleton initiated preparations for his proposed journey. This would act as the Ross Sea party's vessel. Three days later, the ship was stopped again. Very happily married, the following four years saw relative peace and calm and Wild earned enough money not only to buy a car (a Wolseley) but to take two well-needed holidays in the hinterland and coast of South Africa. Life and career. To continue with its mission the stranded shore party had to re-supply and re-equip itself from the leftovers from earlier expeditions, notably Captain Scott's Terra Nova Expedition which had been based at Cape Evans a few years earlier. The entire journey took 98 days. Nevertheless, the depots were laid, but three lives were lost before the party's eventual rescue. They anchored off Cape Wild, and were able to see the old landmarks, but sea conditions made it impossible for them to land. [7] He solicited financial and practical support from, among others, Tryggve Gran of Scott's expedition, and the former Prime Minister Lord Rosebery, but received no help from either. Searches for the original advertisement have proved unsuccessful, and the story is generally regarded as apocryphal. An outstanding docudrama which tells the true story of the Shackleton adventure from the perspective of Captain Worsley, the captain of Shackleton's ship "Endurance". Shackleton's Captain (139) IMDb 7.5 1h 25min Captain Frank Worsley signs on as Captain of the Endurance to navigate Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew to Antarctica. They were thus able to begin the second season's depot-laying on schedule, in September 1915. "[5] The journey to South Georgia, the service and the interment were the subject of a BBC Radio 4 programme in the Crossing Continents series. Although the scope for activity was limited, the dogs were exercised (and on occasion raced competitively), men were encouraged to take moonlight walks, and aboard ship there were attempted theatricals. [47][48] The first signs of the ice breaking up occurred on 22 July. [33] The final composition of the Ross Sea party was hurried. On 25 November 2011, the Government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands issued a set of commemorative postage stamps honouring Frank Wild along with other Antarctic pioneers. By now it was mid-August, more than three months since Shackleton had left Elephant Island. The family came from Skelton close to Marton, birthplace of Captain James Cook, to whom the family claimed ancestry through Mrs. Wild;[2][3] her father was Robert Cook, who claimed to be a grandson of the great explorer. Shackleton named it Caird Coast, after his principal backer. McDonald equipped this vessel for a further rescue attempt, which left on 12 July, but with the same negative result—the pack defeated them yet again. [34] Within the party only Mackintosh and Joyce had any previous Antarctic experience; Mackintosh had lost an eye as the result of an accident during the Nimrod expedition and had gone home early. On instructions from Shackleton, McNish immediately set about adapting the James Caird, improvising tools and materials. Shackleton's firm remonstrance finally brought the carpenter to heel, but the incident was never forgotten. [65], Supplies were now running low. On 27 December, carpenter Harry McNish rebelled and refused to work. Temperatures had risen and it was uncomfortably warm, with men sinking to their knees in soft snow as they struggled to haul the boats through the pressure ridges. By now he was in poor health but retained his characteristic kind, calm countenance. This continued for the next two weeks, taking the party deep into the Weddell Sea. [104] Wild's thoughts were now seriously turning to the possibility of a boat trip to Deception Island—he planned to set out on 5 October, in the hope of meeting a whaling ship—[105] when, on 30 August 1916, the ordeal ended suddenly with the appearance of Shackleton and Yelcho. [12], The Ross Sea party would set up its base in McMurdo Sound, on the opposite side of the continent. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. [102] Concerts were held on Saturdays and anniversaries were celebrated, but there were growing feelings of despondency as time passed with no sign of the ship. [29] Royal Navy Chief Petty Officer Tom Crean, who had been awarded the Albert Medal for saving the life of Lieutenant Edward Evans on the Terra Nova Expedition, took leave from the navy to sign on as Endurance's second officer; another experienced Antarctic hand, Alfred Cheetham, became third officer. Conceived by Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition was an attempt to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent. [3] Here his father was appointed clerk of the Eversholt Parochial Charity at Woburn. [56] He believed the march was too risky; they should wait until the ice carried them to open water, and then escape in the boats. On 24 October 1922, Wild married Vera Alexandra Altman (née Bogosoff), the widow of a tea planter of Borneo, at Reading Registry Office. They were finally rescued by Shackleton aboard the Chilean ship Yelcho. Butler said, "His ashes will now be where they were always supposed to be. The only realistic way this could be done was to adapt one of the lifeboats for an 800-mile (1,300 km) voyage across the Southern Ocean, to South Georgia. [50], On 30 September, the ship sustained what Shackleton described as "the worst squeeze we had experienced". [51] On 24 October, the starboard side was forced against a large floe, increasing the pressure until the hull began to bend and splinter, so that water from below the ice began to pour into the ship. The expedition was to consist of two parties and two ships. To reach them would mean either another boat journey around the island, or a land crossing through its unexplored interior. This page was last edited on 9 January 2021, at 14:10. They returned with news of a long spit of land, seven miles (11 km) to the west. 1, which started south on 10 June. Shackleton died of a heart attack on South Georgia during the expedition, and Wild took over command and completed the journey, combating unfavourable weather to Elephant Island and along the Antarctic coast.[1]. Shackleton did not at this stage abandon all hope of breaking free, but was now contemplating the "possibility of having to spend a winter in the inhospitable arms of the pack". [119] Following a propaganda mission in Buenos Aires, Shackleton was employed during the last weeks of the war on special service in Murmansk, with the Army rank of Major. [27], As his second-in-command, Shackleton chose Frank Wild, who had been with him on both the Discovery and Nimrod expeditions, and was one of the Farthest South party in 1909. 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