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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.
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1915-10-18 | Pressure ridges rise against the hull for the first time in weeks. The timbers begin to groan through the night.
1915-10-24 | The rudder is torn clean away. Water enters the engine room. The pumps run without stopping for two days.
1915-10-25 | Shackleton orders the boats, stores and dogs lowered onto the ice as a precaution.
1915-10-27 | At 1700 he gives the order to abandon ship. The men make camp on the floe beside the dying hull.
1915-10-30 | Ocean Camp is established. Salvage parties return to the wreck for food, timber and Hurley's glass plates.
1915-11-21 | At 1700 the stern rises against the sky and the Endurance goes under. Shackleton writes a single line and closes the book.

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-74,-30,Trapped here January 1915
-69,-51,Ocean Camp October 1915
-61.5,-54,Reached Elephant Island April 1916

:QUOTE [quotetype:plain, subtitle:Ernest Shackleton]
She is going down. I cannot write about it.
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21 November 1915
Weddell Sea, off Antarctica

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:LINK
https://www.google.com/search?q=Endurance+Shackleton+1915+sinking
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