LOSS OF THE ENDURANCE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8465, 2 June 1916, Page 5

LOSS OF THE ENDURANCE.

LIFTED BODJLY OUT OF THE ICE.

PARTY THREE MONTHS OM AM- ICE-FLOE. ONE BOAT LOST IN A GALE. 'SHACKLETON'S REMARKABLE VOYAGE, (Per Press Association —Copyright). (Received June 2, 12.50 p.m. ) LONDON, June 1. :■

Sir-Ernest Shackleton, in a long and thrilling narrative, reports that the party left South Georgia on December 6, and sighted coast land on January 10. They next discovered, new land, with 200 miles of coast-line, and great glaciers discharging into the sea, which ho named Cairo. He observed a great migration of thousands of seals northwards. '

The explorers experienced heavy gales, and eventually found themselves closed in in the ice. There were signs of the ice opning in tho middle of February, so they decided to attempt to break out. With 49 degrees of frost by tho end of February, the old and young ice-packs cemented together, so that it became impossible

either to land or to ' extricate the ship.

They drifted across the Woddcl Sea, embedded in the ice-pack, and 20 dogs diod. Their peril increased in June and July, when the ice pressure increased.

There was a great crash on. August 1, when the pressure drove the Endurance bodily out of tho ice, and she was hurled before the gale. Tho ship stood tho strain, but the rudder was damaged. On October 16 the pressure threw the Endurance on her beam-emds upon the ice, and all hands camped on the ice 300 miles from land.

Leaving tho Endurance, they began the sledge journey northwards, making only v mile daily; so they aban- ! donod the journey ajid returned to the jcamp< near' the ship. They drifted i along on tho floe for two months, i The Endurance sank on November 120, and the party remained on , the small ico floe for threo months, drifting northward. They crossed the circle in January, in dire condition, and 'sighted the Shetlands on April 7, when they launched three boats, rowed Ito tho westward, aud landed on Elephant Island. j One boat disappeared in a furious gale off the island. Lieutenant Wild was loft in charge there, while. Shackloton voyaged to j South Georgia, oxperiencino; constant snow storms and gales for a fortnight. •