Voyage of the James Caird
The James Caird was the ship of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917. In October 1915, pack ice in the Weddell Sea had sunk the main expedition ship Endurance, leaving Shackleton and 27 companions adrift on a floe. They drifted northward until April 1916, when the floe they had encamped on broke up, then made their way in the...
