Endurance (Ship)

Endurance was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men and one cat sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. It was launched in 1912 from Sandefjord in Norway; three years later, it was crushed by pack ice and sank in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica. All of its crew survived.

On 9 March 2022, 107 years later, it was announced that the wreck of Endurance – now designated as a protected historic site and monument under the Antarctic Treaty[2] – had been found 3,008 metres (9,869 ft) deep, in "remarkably good condition", by researchers aboard the icebreaker S.A. Agulhas II.

Ernest Shackleton's Endurance ship found in Antarctica after 107 years.

More than a century after it sank off the coast of Antarctica, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship HMS Endurance has been located, apparently intact and in good condition. The ship, which sank in 1915, is 3,008 meters (1.9 miles or 9,842 feet) deep in the Weddell Sea, a pocket in the Southern Ocean along the northern coast of Antarctica, south of the Falkland Islands. The discovery was a collaboration between the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and History Hit, the content platform co-founded by historian Dan Snow.