Karageorgis Lines, a Greek cruise company, purchased the 541-foot-long ship in 1971, renaming it Mediterranean Sky. It frequently made passage between London, Las Palmas, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban, Lourenço Marques, and Beira, but one of its true claims to fame was a zippy 15-day passage between London and Cape Town, according to the Greek Reporter. When United Kingdom-based Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering first completed the ship in 1953, it went by the name “City of York.” Mediterranean Sky is one of the best-known shipwrecks in Greece, but it didn’t always have the name to prove it. Four months and four separate rescue expeditions later, Shackleton saved every member of his crew. In a whale boat, Shackleton and five other sailors travelled 800 miles over 16 days to South Georgia to seek out help. Eventually, they escaped to the Elephant Islands, surviving on seal meat and penguins. The crew abandoned the ship and set up a makeshift camp on nearby ice floes for five months. Unfortunately, in 1915, the expedition ship became trapped in a dense pack of ice off the Caird coast, drifting for 10 months before it was ultimately crushed in the pack ice. The search team announced their discovery on March 9, 2022.Įndurance has a storied history among even the most famous shipwrecks due to the harrowing survival story of the Antarctic explorer at its helm: Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, who led a crew of 27 men (and one cat) on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition headed for the South Pole. Location: Weddell Sea, east of the Antarctic PeninsulaĪfter resting 10,000 feet below the waves of the Weddell Sea for over 106 years, a team of technicians, marine archaeologists, and adventurers have finally uncovered the final resting place of the three-masted, 144-foot-long wooden ship Endurance.
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