Sir Ernest Shackleton's polar exploration ship Endurance sank because it lacked beams to prevent compression ice from crushing its hull, according to an analysis. Photo courtesy Aalto University Oct.

The Endurance set sail from Plymouth in 1914 with a crew of past and future polar icons aboard. But true fame only found the ship after she sank. In November of 1915, she was crushed by the ice, ...

Endurance is shown in the winter of 1915. The ship became stuck in ice and eventually sank. A new paper says it wasn't as well-built as previously believed. A new research paper about the vessel ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland (AP) — The wreck of ...

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Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, Endurance, was crushed by Antarctic sea ice and sank in November 1915. Emblematic of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, it is widely considered the strongest polar ...

At a recent black-tie dinner in Manhattan, the Elisha Kent Kane Historical Society, presented its Gold Medal to Mensun Bound, Trustee of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust (FMHT). The prestigious ...

A scale model of the Endurance, the legendary polar ship of Ernest Shackleton, was officially unveiled on Thursday at the ...

The crumbling wooden house on South Georgia Island, where Sir Ernest Shackleton organized the rescue of his crew in 1916, is being restored.

What if one of the most famous and formidable Antarctic exploration vessels in history, whose crew’s story of shipwreck and survival has been told for more than a century, wasn’t as strong as legend ...