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 ...

It was from here that Ernest Shackleton sailed in a makeshift boat, the James Caird, to save his ill-fated trans-Antarctic expedition in 1916. He succeeded - bringing every man home alive.

The exhibition, entitled " Shackleton: the Antarctic and Endurance", is being mounted with the co-operation of the James Caird Society ( named after his famous boat) which exists to promote ...

The account of Shackleton’s journey to Elephant Island, then in the James Caird to South Georgia, the crossing of South Georgia and his four subsequent attempts to rescue the remainder of his ...

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 ...

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 ...

where they landed their vessel in the same place Shackleton and his men beached the James Caird nearly 100 years ago. The next leg will see three of the British-Australian team tackle a two-day ...

The names of Shackleton’s expedition ships, Nimrod and Endurance, are inscribed on the memorial, along with the lifeboat ‘The James Caird’, and the family motto: Fortitudine vincimus ...

The crossing of the Island by foot followed a 12-day re-enactment of Shackleton’s 800 nautical mile journey in a replica of the James Caird from Elephant Island to South Georgia. Expedition ...