Endurance Ship Pins and Buttons
Description: Endurance was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The ship, originally named Polaris, was built at Framnæs shipyard and launched in 1912 from Sandefjord in Norway. After her commissioners could no longer pay the shipyard, the ship was bought by Shackleton in January 1914 for the expedition, which would be her first voyage. A year later, she became trapped in pack ice and finally sank in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica on 21 November 1915. All of the crew survived her sinking and were eventually rescued in 1916 after using the ship's boats to travel to Elephant Island.
Description: Endurance was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The ship, originally named Polaris, was built at Framnæs shipyard and launched in 1912 from Sandefjord in Norway. After her commissioners could no longer pay the shipyard, the ship was bought by Shackleton in January 1914 for the expedition, which would be her first voyage. A year later, she became trapped in pack ice and finally sank in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica on 21 November 1915. All of the crew survived her sinking and were eventually rescued in 1916 after using the ship's boats to travel to Elephant Island.
Description: The wreck of Endurance was discovered on 5 March 2022. Endurance22 announced, in a 9 March 2022 press release, that they had successfully found the wreck in the Weddell Sea at a depth of 9,869 feet. It was about 4 miles south of Worsley's original calculated location. Mensun Bound, the expedition’s director of exploration, said that Worsley's navigational skills had helped the expedition find the wreck; his historic "detailed records were invaluable". Additionally, sea ice, which covers the Weddell Sea year-round and has historically been so thick as to make underwater exploration nearly impossible, was recorded as being at its lowest levels around Antarctica since space satellite records began being kept in the 1970s.
Description: A dark blue and white graphic on a black background depicts a historical sailing vessel with full sails. The text 'ENDURANCE' arches above the ship. To the left of the ship is the year '1914' and to the right is '1917'. Below the ship, the text 'IMPERIAL TRANS-ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION' is displayed.
Description: A stylized depiction of a three-masted sailing ship with full sails, positioned in front of a light blue outline of Antarctica. The text 'ENDURANCE' curves above the ship, and '1914' and '1917' are placed to the left and right respectively. Below the ship, the words 'IMPERIAL TRANS-ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION' are displayed. The overall color scheme is dark blue, white, and light blue against a black background.
Description: A dark navy and white graphic centered on a black background. At the top, arched text reads "ENDURANCE". Below this, a detailed silhouette of a tall ship with three masts is depicted. To the left and right of the ship are the years "1914" and "1917" respectively. At the bottom, two lines of text read "IMPERIAL" and "TRANS-ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION".
Description: The frigate Gloucester is a Speaker-class third rate, commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Gloucester after the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660. The ship was ordered in December 1652, built at Limehouse in East London, and launched in 1654. The warship was conveying James Stuart, Duke of York to Scotland, when on 6 May 1682 she struck a sandbank off the Norfolk coast, and quickly sank. The announcement of the finding of Gloucester was made in 2022, having had to wait until after the ship's identity was confirmed, but also to protect the site, which is located in international waters.
