On 30th August 1916, at the fourth attempt at rescue, the Chilean vessel Yelcho, a tug built in Scotland in 1906 and sold to the Chilean Navy in 1908, sailed her way into the history books after partaking in the final act of a survival tale like no other as […]
Shackleton
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Crean, Shackleton and Worsley return to civilization to arrange rescue It’s clear that the two images here were taken on the same day yet one of the images includes the Master of the ship to make the first rescue attempt, the Norwegian, Captain Ingvar Thom. The attempt would be made […]