Twelve Hundred Hours: The Death of the Endurance
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Twelve Hundred Hours
The ice held Shackleton's ship for ten months before it finally won. These are the final days of the Endurance, read like a ship's log, from the first crack in the floe to the moment the stern slipped under and twenty eight men were left standing on the sea itself.
🧭🚢🧊18.10.1915 – 21.11.1915
18.10.1915Pressure ridges rise against the hull for the first time in weeks. The timbers begin to groan through the night.
18.10.1915
24.10.1915The rudder is torn clean away. Water enters the engine room. The pumps run without stopping for two days.
24.10.1915
25.10.1915Shackleton orders the boats, stores and dogs lowered onto the ice as a precaution.
25.10.1915
27.10.1915At 1700 he gives the order to abandon ship. The men make camp on the floe beside the dying hull.
27.10.1915
30.10.1915Ocean Camp is established. Salvage parties return to the wreck for food, timber and Hurley's glass plates.
30.10.1915
21.11.1915At 1700 the stern rises against the sky and the Endurance goes under. Shackleton writes a single line and closes the book.
21.11.1915
LOADING COORDINATES...
"She is going down. I cannot write about it.
"Ernest Shackleton · expedition diary · November 1915
MOMENT
21 November 1915
Weddell Sea, off Antarctica
Held by the ice
281 days
Drift on the floe
over 1500 km
Souls aboard
28 men and 1 cat
Lost on the journey
none