Ms Shackleton is president of the James Caird Society dedicated to Sir Ernest and flew to the south of Chile to attend the opening of the exhibition and to pay tribute to the Chilean navy and the ...

The 'Shackleton Epic' has been in development since ... trialling the 'Alexandra Shackleton', the replica of the 'James Caird' - Shackleton's lifeboat which stood him in good order on his epic ...

One of these little lifeboats represents the James Caird. Shackleton and five others squeezed into the tiny vessel and over the next 17 days they made their way across terrible seas, enduring ...

In Ernest Shackleton's view, there was only one course ... they landed their 22-foot boat, the James Caird, on the remote but inhabited island of South Georgia. That they survived such a long ...