Lionel Greenstreet collection 1914-1964

Shackleton, Ernest Henry, 1874-1922

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Ernest Shackleton, leader of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition and part of two other Antarctic expeditions, acquired Polaris after her owner's financial trouble. Renamed Endurance after the Shackleton family motto Fortitudine vincimus (By Endurance we Conquer), she sailed intending to accomplish the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent. She departed for her final voyage on December 15, 1914 but progress was slow, averaging about 30 miles per day through pack ice. A month later, w...

James, R. W. (Reginald William), 1891-

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Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition Weddell Sea 1914-1916

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Greenstreet, Lionel

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Lionel Greenstreet was born in 1890 in Barnet, Hertfordshire. He was educated at Sunningdale and the training ship Worcester, from which he passed out in 1904. He served in several sailing ships, gaining a Master's certificate in 1911. He joined the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition [Weddell Sea Party], 1914-1916 (leader Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton), as first officer in Endurance After the ship was crushed in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea, the crew lived for six months on drifti...

Endurance (Steam yacht)

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Greenstreet Lionel 1890-1979

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