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Endurance at midnight ROY.30.1.60

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Endurance at midnight

Slide, lantern slide depicting a black and white image of the Endurance, taken at midnight. Original taken by Frank Hurley (official expedition photographer) dated 27th August 1915. Hurley described this image as 'during the night take flashlight of the ship beset by pressure.' The Endurance was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. She was launched in 1912 from Sandefjord in Norway and was crushed by ice, causing her to sink, three years later in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica. This image shows her beset by the ice which eventually sunk her. Part of a set of sixty seven black and white lantern slides held in a wooden box depicting scenes mostly from the Terra Nova Expedition 1910-1912, with a few concerning the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-1915.

Number: ROY.30.1.60
Name: Endurance at midnight
Date: 1915
Maker: Stanley, W.F.,
Location: In Store