Verner Carse collection 1936-1980

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...

Verner Duncan Carse

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Verner Duncan Carse was born on 28 July 1913. He was educated at Sherborne and Lausanne, Switzerland, before joining the Merchant Navy in 1932 as a square-rig apprentice. He served in RRS Discovery II (3rd commission) on the Discovery Investigations, 1933-1935 (leader Neil Alison Mackintosh). In 1934, he transferred from Discovery II to Penola at Port Stanley, joining the British Graham Land Expedition, 1934-1937 (leader John Rymill), as deck-boy, later advancing to able seaman and ...

Rymill, John, 1905-1968

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Carse Verner Duncan b 1913

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Shackleton, Edward Shackleton, Baron, 1911-1994

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British Graham Land Expedition Antarctic Peninsula 1934-1937

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South Georgia Surveys 1951-1957

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