The family came from Skelton close to Marton, birthplace of Captain James Cook, to whom the family claimed ancestry through Mrs. Wild;[2][3] her father was Robert Cook, who claimed to be a grandson of the great explorer. After the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition, Wild returned to South Africa with Vera where he continued to farm. Shackleton, Worsley and Crean would undertake the land journey, the others remaining at what they christened "Peggotty Camp", to be picked up later after help had been obtained from the whaling stations. Jackleberry Press, 214 pages. [102] Concerts were held on Saturdays and anniversaries were celebrated, but there were growing feelings of despondency as time passed with no sign of the ship. They made the perfect team. [44] On 24 February, Shackleton realised that they would be held in the ice throughout the winter, and ordered ship's routine abandoned. I am equally sure Captain Scott never intended for anyone else to read his diaries, although I have done (for my new novel, Everland), as have countless other people, and there is a … Wild's relatives and Shackleton's granddaughter, the Hon. Temperatures had risen and it was uncomfortably warm, with men sinking to their knees in soft snow as they struggled to haul the boats through the pressure ridges. His grave is marked with a rough-hewn granite block with the inscription: "Frank Wild 1873–1939, Shackleton's right-hand man.". An outstanding docudrama which tells the true story of the Shackleton adventure from the perspective of Captain Worsley, the captain of Shackleton's ship "Endurance". Shackleton's intention now was to march the crew westward, to one or other of several possible destinations. On 1 August, in a south-westerly gale with heavy snow, the ice floe began to disintegrate all around the ship, the pressure forcing masses of ice beneath the keel and causing a heavy list to port. Therefore, on 21 December he announced a second march, to begin on 23 December. At 11:40 a.m. on 30 August, the fog lifted, the camp was spotted and, within an hour, all the Elephant Island party were safely aboard, bound for Punta Arenas. Wild's younger brother Ernest Wild also went on to become a Royal Naval seaman and Antarctic explorer, receiving a Polar Medal. [115], The rescued party, having had its last contact with civilization in 1914, was unaware of the course of the Great War. Shackleton had abandoned thoughts of taking the party on the less dangerous journey to Deception Island,[78] because of the poor physical condition of many of his party. A storm on 18 May delayed their start, but by two o'clock the following morning the weather was clear and calm, and an hour later the crossing party set out. Captain Frank Worsley signs on as Captain of the Endurance to navigate Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew to Antarctica. [18] Shackleton changed her name to Endurance, reflecting his family motto "By endurance we conquer". [32], The scientific staff of six accompanying Endurance comprised the two surgeons, Alexander Macklin and James McIlroy; a geologist, James Wordie; a biologist, Robert Clark; a physicist Reginald W. James; and Leonard Hussey, a meteorologist who would eventually edit Shackleton's expedition account South. [87], Their destination was the whaling station at Stromness, which had been the last port of call of the Endurance on their outbound journey. [47][48] The first signs of the ice breaking up occurred on 22 July. The news of Amundsen's conquest of the South Pole reached Shackleton on 11 March 1912, to which he responded: "The discovery of the South Pole will not be the end of Antarctic exploration". These were Clarence and Elephant Island, around 100 miles (160 km) due north of their position on 25 March. However, conditions in the boats, in temperatures sometimes as low as −20 °F (−29 °C), with little food and regular soakings in icy seawater, were wearing the men down, physically and mentally. Life and career. Earlier, the lifeboats had been named after the expedition's three chief financial sponsors: James Caird, Dudley Docker and Stancomb Wills. [12], How much money Shackleton raised to meet the total costs of the expedition (later estimated by the Daily Mail to be around £80,000)[16] is uncertain, since the size of the Stancomb-Wills donation is not known. [69] They were too far north for Snow Hill or Paulet Island to be accessible, and Shackleton's chief hopes were now fixed on two remaining small islands at the northern extremity of Graham Land. [109] She carried with her the greater part of the shore party's fuel, food rations, clothing and equipment, although the sledging rations for the depots had been landed ashore. Searches for the original advertisement have proved unsuccessful, and the story is generally regarded as apocryphal. [8] Of Wild, Paul Rose has said: "He was a true great. He was informed by the Admiralty that nothing was available before October, which in his view was too late. The Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914–1917 is considered to be the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. At the close of that first day, needing to descend to the valley below them before nightfall, they risked everything by sliding down a mountainside on a makeshift rope sledge. Davis refused, thinking the enterprise was "foredoomed",[18] so the appointment went to Frank Worsley, who claimed to have applied to the expedition after learning of it in a dream. [98] The priority for the party was a permanent shelter against the rapidly approaching southern winter. The toes on Blackborow's left foot became gangrenous from frostbite and, on 15 June, had to be amputated by surgeons Alexander Macklin and James McIlroy in the candle-lit hut. Here Shackleton, who had travelled on a faster ship, rejoined the expedition. Butler said, "His ashes will now be where they were always supposed to be. Shackleton therefore decided that Elephant Island, the nearest of the possible refuges, was now the most practical option. The peak of Mount Haddington on James Ross Island remained in view as the party drifted slowly by. [51] On 24 October, the starboard side was forced against a large floe, increasing the pressure until the hull began to bend and splinter, so that water from below the ice began to pour into the ship. [63] He argued that Admiralty law had lapsed since Endurance's sinking, and that he was no longer under orders. McDonald equipped this vessel for a further rescue attempt, which left on 12 July, but with the same negative result—the pack defeated them yet again. By dawn they had ascended to 3,000 feet (910 m) and could see the northern coast. The success of the voyage depended on the pin-point accuracy of Worsley's navigation, using observations that would have to be made in the most unfavourable of conditions. After Amundsen's South Pole expedition in 1911, this crossing remained, in Shackleton's words, the "one great main object of Antarctic journeyings". By now it was mid-August, more than three months since Shackleton had left Elephant Island. This scheme had collapsed and the ship became available. [116] The expedition returned home in piecemeal fashion, at a critical stage in the war, without the normal honours and civic receptions. It would be at least four months before spring brought the chance of an opening of the ice, and there was no certainty that Endurance would break free in time to attempt a return to the Vahsel Bay area. Shackleton commented: "I had been prepared for evil conditions in the Weddell Sea, but had hoped that the pack would be loose. [84] On 8 May, South Georgia was sighted, after a 14-day battle with the elements that had driven the boat party to their physical limits. [96] Shackleton later named a glacier after McDonald on the Brunt Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea. If the party was to return to civilization it would be necessary to summon help. The Southern Sky was not built for ice breaking, and retreated to Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands.[95]. He had also been awarded the Civil List pension from Downing Street. [29] Royal Navy Chief Petty Officer Tom Crean, who had been awarded the Albert Medal for saving the life of Lieutenant Edward Evans on the Terra Nova Expedition, took leave from the navy to sign on as Endurance's second officer; another experienced Antarctic hand, Alfred Cheetham, became third officer. The set comprises eight stamps in four se-tenant pairs with denominations of 60, 70 and 90 pence, and £1.15. [78] Shackleton took supplies for only four weeks, knowing that if land had not been reached within that time the boat would be lost. [51] Worsley described the pressure as like being "thrown to and fro like a shuttlecock a dozen times". Nevertheless, the depots were laid, but three lives were lost before the party's eventual rescue. This territory had been discovered and named by William Speirs Bruce in 1904, during the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. The expedition required two ships: Endurance under Shackleton for the Weddell Sea party, and Aurora, under Aeneas Mackintosh, for the Ross Sea party. [40] On 15 January, Endurance came abreast of a great glacier, the edge of which formed a bay which appeared a good landing place. In this new venture he proposed to sail to the Weddell Sea and to land a shore party near Vahsel Bay, in preparation for a transcontinental march via the South Pole to the Ross Sea. [107] Neither the men nor the dogs were acclimatised, and the party was, as a whole, very inexperienced in ice conditions. [106], Aurora left Hobart on 24 December 1914, having been delayed in Australia by financial and organizational problems. [92] This image of a fourth traveller—echoed in the accounts of Worsley and Crean—was taken up by T. S. Eliot in his poem The Waste Land. [72] He had now decided they would try, if possible, to reach the distant Deception Island because a small wooden church had been reportedly erected for the benefit of whalers. On 27 November 2011, the ashes of Frank Wild, Shackleton's "right-hand man", were interred on the right-hand side of Shackleton's grave site in Grytviken, South Georgia. This lay far to the west, toward the South Shetland Islands, but Shackleton thought it might be attainable by island-hopping. Special occasions such as Empire Day were duly celebrated. [6] He was also the recipient of a number of awards for his contributions to exploration and for advancing geography: He received the Royal Geographical Society's Back Award in 1916 and the Society's Patron's Medal in 1924. This group, with 69 dogs, two motor sledges, and equipment "embodying everything that the experience of the leader and his expert advisers can suggest",[12] would undertake the 1,800-mile (2,900 km) journey to the Ross Sea. [45], In the dark winter months of May, June and July, Shackleton was concerned to maintain fitness, training and morale. [56], Before the march could begin, Shackleton ordered the weakest animals to be shot, including the carpenter Harry McNish's cat, Mrs Chippy, and a pup which had become a pet of the surgeon Macklin. He first left South Georgia a mere three days after he had arrived in Stromness, after securing the use of a large whaler, The Southern Sky, which was laid up in Husvik Harbour. Shackleton assembled a volunteer crew, which had it ready to sail by the morning of 22 May. The only realistic way this could be done was to adapt one of the lifeboats for an 800-mile (1,300 km) voyage across the Southern Ocean, to South Georgia. These depots would be essential for the transcontinental party's survival, as the group would not be able to carry enough provisions for the entire crossing. A permanent lookout was kept for the arrival of the rescue ship, cooking and housekeeping rotas were established, and there were hunting trips for seal and penguin. As the vessel approached Elephant Island they saw that an impenetrable barrier of pack ice had formed, some 70 miles (110 km) from their destination. [82], The 22.5-foot (6.9 m) James Caird was launched on 24 April 1916. To reach them would mean either another boat journey around the island, or a land crossing through its unexplored interior. [14] Lord Rosebery, who had previously expressed his lack of interest in polar expeditions, gave £50. The remainder of the party reached the temporary shelter of Hut Point, a relic of the Discovery Expedition at the southern end of McMurdo Sound, where they slowly recovered. Wild was awarded the CBE in the New Year Honours List of 1920 and in May 1923 he was made a Freeman of the City of London. On 24 October 1922, Wild married Vera Alexandra Altman (née Bogosoff), the widow of a tea planter of Borneo, at Reading Registry Office. Shackleton's Captain reveals the truth behind the spectacular survival of all the crew and shows how one man's extra-ordinary skill and unsung heroism made it possible; Frank Worsley, Captain of the expedition ship, Endurance. "[23], Eventually the crews for the two arms of the expedition were trimmed down to 28 apiece, including William Bakewell, who joined the ship in Buenos Aires, his friend Perce Blackborow who stowed away when his application was turned down,[24] and several last-minute appointments made to the Ross Sea party in Australia. [20] Shackleton had, however, realised the revenue-earning potential of the expedition. [13] The Royal Geographical Society, from which he had expected nothing, gave him £1,000—according to Huntford, Shackleton, in a grand gesture, advised them that he would only need to take up half of this sum. [5] However, his reports of possible landing sites in Vahsel Bay, at around 78° latitude, were noted by Shackleton, and incorporated into his developing expedition plans. The Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904, known officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions since the voyage of James Clark Ross sixty years earlier (1839-1843). He was perhaps best known for his 1914–16 expedition, in which his ship, Endurance, was crushed by pack ice and the crew endured months of hardship before being rescued. More of the abandoned supplies were retrieved until, on 21 November, the ship finally slipped beneath the ice. According to Hurley the surface became "a labyrinth of hummocks and ridges", in which barely a square yard was smooth. On 2 February 1916, Shackleton sent a larger party back, to recover the third lifeboat. Using the last of the chloroform in their medical supplies, the whole procedure took 55 minutes and was a complete success. [22] Shackleton received more than 5,000 applications for places on the expedition, including a letter from "three sporty girls" who suggested that if their feminine garb was inconvenient they would "just love to don masculine attire. Frank Arthur Worsley DSO OBE RD (22 February 1872 – 1 February 1943) was a New Zealand sailor and explorer who served on Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1916, as captain of the Endurance. "It might have been six hundred for all the chance we had of reaching it across the broken sea-ice", Shackleton recorded. With time running out, contributions were eventually secured during the first half of 1914. A supporting group, the Ross Sea party, would meanwhile establish camp in McMurdo Sound, and from there lay a series of supply depots across the Ross Ice Shelf to the foot of the Beardmore Glacier. [31] After pressing his case, Shackleton was given one officer from the Royal Marines, Captain Thomas Orde-Lees, who was Superintendent of Physical Training at the Marines training depot. The remaining eight shore party members would carry out scientific work, three going to Graham Land, three to Enderby Land and two remaining at base camp. To continue with its mission the stranded shore party had to re-supply and re-equip itself from the leftovers from earlier expeditions, notably Captain Scott's Terra Nova Expedition which had been based at Cape Evans a few years earlier. The Weddell Sea party would travel in the Endurance and continue to the Vahsel Bay area, where fourteen men would land of whom six, under Shackleton, would form the Transcontinental Party. [100] This policy led to sharp disagreements with Thomas Orde-Lees, the storekeeper, who was not a popular man and whose presence apparently did little to improve the morale of his companions, unless it was by way of being the butt of their jokes. Soon afterwards, the three boats, which had been separated during the previous night, were reunited at this landing place. This time, as Shackleton records, providence favoured them. However, he had little respect for Frost; that and the demands of building the house in an extremely remote part of the country caused him to return to Johannesburg. [55] Other possibilities were Snow Hill Island, which had been Nordenskiöld's winter quarters and which was believed to contain a stock of emergency supplies,[56] or Robertson Island. With Shackleton’s great leadership skills, and Frank’s cool head and experience, they were able to handle almost anything that the Antarctic could throw at them."[9]. He married for the second time on 18 March 1931. Again the pack thwarted them. [118] Most of the members of the expedition returned to take up immediate active military or naval service. [27], As his second-in-command, Shackleton chose Frank Wild, who had been with him on both the Discovery and Nimrod expeditions, and was one of the Farthest South party in 1909. [89] There was no question of rest—they travelled on by moonlight, moving upwards towards a gap in the next mountainous ridge. The position at abandonment was 69° 05′S, 51° 30′W. On instructions from Shackleton, McNish immediately set about adapting the James Caird, improvising tools and materials. GUEST AUTHOR BLOG: Leading at The Edge by Dennis N.T. [43], On 21 February 1915, Endurance, still held fast, drifted to her most southerly latitude, 76° 58′S. In the 2000s, while journalist and author Angie Butler was researching a book about Wild she discovered his ashes were still in a vault at Braamfontein Cemetery. 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A well written book by the captain of the Endurance, Frank Worsley, which covers, day-to-day, the epic journey of the James Caird over the storm invested South Atlantic in order to save the survivors of Shackleton's Antarctic expedition. Bruce generously allowed Shackleton to adopt his plans,[9] although the eventual scheme announced by Shackleton owed little to Bruce. Problems quickly arose, as the condition of the sea ice around them worsened. [12], The Ross Sea party would set up its base in McMurdo Sound, on the opposite side of the continent. The visual record of the expedition was the responsibility of its photographer Frank Hurley and its artist George Marston. He participated in five expeditions to Antarctica during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, for which he was awarded the Polar Medal with four bars, one of only two men to be so honoured, the other being Ernest Joyce. Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands was closer than South Georgia, but could not be reached, as this would require sailing against the strong prevailing winds. They were finally rescued by Shackleton aboard the Chilean ship Yelcho. After months spent in makeshift camps as the ice continued its northwards drift, the party took to the lifeboats to reach the inhospitable, uninhabited Elephant Island. A wireless apparatus was rigged, but their location was too remote to receive or transmit signals. Frank Worsley is best known as the captain of the Endurance on Shackleton's ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914, but he led a full and very interesting life that included searching for treasure and sinking a German U-boat during WWI. On 5 May, a north-westerly gale almost caused the boat's destruction as it faced what Shackleton described as the largest waves he had seen in 26 years at sea. ; In 1908–1909, he was a member of Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition and was a member of the team that crossed the Ross Barrier and Beardmore Glacier at a record latitude of 88º23'S. Against this gloomy background Shackleton initiated preparations for his proposed journey. They returned with news of a long spit of land, seven miles (11 km) to the west. Shackleton died of a heart attack on South Georgia during the expedition, and Wild took over command and completed the journey, combating unfavourable weather to Elephant Island and along the Antarctic coast.[1]. Safe return doubtful. Before reaching the coast, the ship became frozen in pack ice, and was crushed. After the war, Wild went to South Africa, where he farmed in British Nyasaland with Francis Bickerton and James McIlroy, two former Antarctic comrades. Cape Wild and Point Wild on Elephant Island in the Antarctic are named after him, as is Mount Wild in the Queen Alexandra Range and Mount Wild in Graham Land. [19] Mackintosh was forced to haggle and plead for money and supplies to make his part of the expedition viable. [93], Shackleton's first task, on arriving at the Stromness station, was to arrange for his three companions at Peggoty Camp to be picked up. Perkins, author of Leading at The Edge, Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of … What we were encountering was fairly dense pack of a very obstinate character". [28] Wild had just returned from Mawson's Australian Antarctic Expedition. Shackleton had served in the Antarctic on the Discovery expedition of 1901–1904, and had led the Nimrod expedition of 1907–1909. During this relative lull the ship drifted into the area where, in 1823, Captain Benjamin Morrell of the sealer Wasp reported seeing a coastline which he identified as "New South Greenland". The seas were open, and the ship was able to approach close to the island, in thick fog. [75], On 14 April, the boats lay off the south-east coast of Elephant Island, but could not land as the shore consisted of perpendicular cliffs and glaciers. Unabled to return to McMurdo Sound, she remained captive in the ice for nine months until on 12 February 1916, having travelled a distance of around 1,600 miles (2,600 km), she reached open water and limped to New Zealand. I know that during that long and racking march of 36 hours over the unnamed mountains and glaciers it seemed to me often that we were four, not three". In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition headed for the South Pole and disaster. [94], It took four attempts before Shackleton was able to return to Elephant Island to rescue the party stranded there. [33] The final composition of the Ross Sea party was hurried. On the suggestion of George Marston and Lionel Greenstreet, a hut—nicknamed the "Snuggery"—was improvised by upturning the two boats and placing them on low stone walls, to provide around five feet (1.5 m) of headroom. Captain Scott and Captain Shackleton: A 100 Year Old Expedition The return of the sun after 92 days. [103], By 23 August, it seemed that Wild's no-stockpiling policy had failed. He subsidised his meagre income by giving the occasional lecture on the Endurance expedition. He also served in … With Kenneth Branagh, John Grillo, Paul Humpoletz, Phoebe Nicholls. Endurance became beset in the ice of the Weddell Sea before reaching Vahsel Bay, and drifted northward, held in the pack ice, throughout the Antarctic winter of 1915. [8], Shackleton got support, however, from William Speirs Bruce, leader of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902–1904, who had harboured plans for an Antarctic crossing since 1908, but had abandoned the project for lack of funds. [21], According to legend, Shackleton posted an advertisement in a London paper, stating: "Men wanted for hazardous journey. [52] The supplies and three lifeboats were transferred to the ice, while the crew attempted to shore up the ship's hull and pump out the incoming sea, but after a few days, on 27 October 1915, and in freezing temperatures below −15 °F (−26 °C), Shackleton gave the order to abandon ship. Aurora was blown from her moorings during a gale and was unable to return, leaving the shore party marooned without proper supplies or equipment. The documentary film also featured commentary from polar historian Dr. Huw Lewis-Jones, author Francis Spufford and explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes. Six months later, at latitude 63° 37', the ship broke free, then sailed to South Georgia apparently none the worse for its ordeal. [4] He was aware that others were in the field pursuing this objective. Caught in the 1930 Depression, he was forced to move from job to job, including working as a battery manager at a diamond mine which went bankrupt, prospecting in Rhodesia and managing a quarry. Shackleton's Captain (139) IMDb 7.5 1h 25min Captain Frank Worsley signs on as Captain of the Endurance to navigate Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew to Antarctica. Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton was an Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. [55] Worsley calculated the distance to Snow Hill Island to be 312 miles (500 km), with a further 120 miles (190 km) to Wilhelmina Bay. Antarctica Edit. [113] The survivors eventually reached Cape Evans, but then had to wait for eight further months. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. [85], The arrival of the James Caird at King Haakon Bay was followed by a period of rest and recuperation, while Shackleton pondered the next move. General Information . [120] This occupied him until March 1919. Shackleton first went to the Antarctic on Captain Robert Scott's 1901-1904 expedition but he was sent home as he was ill. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition headed for the South Pole and disaster. [13], In February 1914, The New York Times reported that playwright J. M. Barrie—a close friend of Captain Scott—had confidentially donated $50,000 (about £10,000). Hurley also came on board, together with Bakewell and the stowaway, Blackborow, while several others left the ship or were discharged. He stood shoulder to shoulder with Shackleton. On returning to the United Kingdom in 1916, Wild volunteered for duty during World War I and was made a temporary lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. This meant the first of several backtrackings that would extend the journey and frustrate the men. Learn more about Shackleton’s life and career. Three days later, the ship was stopped again. [28], Endurance, without Shackleton (who was detained in England by expedition business), left Plymouth on 8 August 1914, heading first for Buenos Aires. [77], Elephant Island was remote, uninhabited, and rarely visited by whalers or any other ships. Next he was involved in railway construction and for a time had some success with a contract to extend the South African railway to the border with Swaziland. [63], Conditions, however, had not improved since the earlier attempt. 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