Thomas Hans Orde-Lees collection 1914-1917

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...

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition Weddell Sea 1914-1916

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Orde-Lees Thomas Hans 1879-1958

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Thomas Hans Orde-Lees

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Thomas Hans Orde-Lees was born in Germany of Anglo-Irish stock in 1879. He was educated at Marlborough College, the Royal Naval School in Gosport and Sandhurst in England. He was commissioned in the Royal Marines, eventually rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. A skier and physical fitness expert, he was seconded by the navy to the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition [Weddell Sea Party], 1914-1916 (leader Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton), with the official position of motor expert....

Endurance (Steam yacht)

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