Still in 2024 we reported about the discovery Quest shipwreck, a polar exploration ship serving Arctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton on his last voyage. Shackleton died before reaching his destination and the ship sank in 1962. The Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) has released its first images more than 60 years after the ship sank. was published in Canadian Geographic magazine.
Shackleton is, of course, most famous for his ill-fated voyage Endurance, In 1914, it sank in the sea ice. Shackleton and his crew defied the odds and survived. (The Endurance there was a shipwreck finally found in 2022.) When Shackleton returned to England, the country was engaged in the First World War and many of its men had enlisted. Shackleton was considered too old for active service. He was also deeply in debt Endurance earns money on the expedition, lecture circuit. But he still dreamed of another expedition to the Arctic Ocean, north of Alaska, to explore the Beaufort Sea. Got funding from an old school guy, John Quillier Rowett.
Shackleton bought a wooden Norwegian whaler. Seal Ihis wife Emily changed her name Quest. When the Canadian government withdrew its support, the mission moved back to Antarctica and Quest received an extensive reconstruction. Improvements included a new deckhouse, heated crow’s nest, wireless set and odograph for automatic route tracking and charting, as well as a Lucas deep-sea sounding apparatus, a large and expensive collection of cameras and photographic equipment, and even a small airplane.
The Quest expedition In 1921, he left for Antarctica. Shackleton never reached his intended destination, falling ill in late December as the ship prepared to leave Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Although he was not normally allowed to drink alcohol while at sea, he had started drinking heavily to “soothe his pain”. The Quest Arriving in South Georgia on January 4, 1922, Shackleton made his last diary entry before going to bed.
