![]() Shackleton soon rechristened her ‘Endurance’ after the Shackleton family motto which was “Fortitudine vincimus” (By endurance we conquer). So, when Ernest Shackleton offered them the sum of £11,600 they accepted and were said to be happy to take a loss to help an explorer of Shackleton’s stature. ![]() Originally the ship was built for Lars Christensen and Adrien de Gerlache and their tourist company offering polar cruises, however financial problems meant that the project was cancelled. With three masts, her forward mast was square-rigged with the two others carrying fore and aft sails, accompanied by a 350 horsepower coal-fired steam engine which could reach speeds of over 10 knots. Her bow had been made from single oak tree timbers selected for their shape following the curves of the ship, with her keel consisted of four solid pieces of oak all adding up to a thickness of 2.2m. When built she was one of the strongest wooden ships ever built, a true legend of the icy seas, crafted for heroic expeditions into the unkown.Īn incredibly strong ship, she was 44m long with a beam of 7.6m measuring 348 tons gross, built of planks of oak and Norwegian fir up to 76cm thick and sheathed in greenheart. It was built for maximum strength against the icy waters of Antarctica and every detail down to each fitting was meticulously planned and carried out in the construction, initially christened ‘Polaris’ after the North Star. Frank Hurley The Endurance was built in Sandjeford, Norway on the 17th December 1912, overseen by the experienced master shipbuilder Christian Jacobsen at the Framnaes shipyard.
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