Tag: Donald Lamont

• Sunday, October 20th 2024 - 15:46 UTC

  Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust chair to step down

  

  Donald Lamont, long-serving Chair of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust board of Trustees is retiring from his roles as chairman and Trustee. He will relinquish his role as chairman on 21st October 2024 and will resign as a Trustee on 4th November 2024.

• Thursday, May 19th 2022 - 23:48 UTC

  Reach the World to Honor the Endurance22 Expedition with the 2022 Cronkite Award

  

  The Endurance22 expedition will receive Reach the World’s 2022 Cronkite Award for Excellence in Storytelling. Reach the World will present the award at its Annual Benefit in New York City on July 20, 2022.

• Saturday, January 15th 2022 - 20:55 UTC

  Falklands' Maritime Heritage Trust resumes search for Shackleton's Endurance

  

  Last week the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust announced the resumption of the search for Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance which lies in deep water beneath the ice of the Weddell Sea. A hundred years after his death Shackleton is still big news and media outlets around the world were quick to pick up on the story.

• Sunday, July 4th 2021 - 23:00 UTC

  Endurance22: Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust organizes expedition to find and film Shackleton's ship sunk in Antarctica in 1915

  

  The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust (FMHT) is planning an expedition – Endurance22 – to locate, survey and film the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s iconic ship, Endurance, which sank in the Weddell Sea in November 1915.

• Thursday, December 5th 2019 - 10:58 UTC

  Discovery of WW1 German Battlecruiser SMS Scharnhorst in Falklands waters

  

  The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust is pleased to announce that the wreck of SMS Scharnhorst has been located off the Falkland Islands. The Scharnhorst, an armoured battle-cruiser and the flagship of Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee’s East Asia Squadron, was sunk on 8 December 1914 during the Battle of the Falkland Islands, a crucial naval battle in the early days of the First World War.

• Saturday, April 13th 2019 - 08:12 UTC

  Searching for Admiral Graf von Spee’s great cruiser fleet sunk at the Falklands Battle

  

  In 2014-2015, to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Falklands, Mensun Bound, a Falkland Islander himself, led an expedition to try to find Admiral Graff von Spee’s lost cruiser squadron in 1914, the whereabouts of which has become one the great mysteries of the maritime world. Now he is resuming the hunt. Mercopress began by asking how it all began.

• Saturday, July 30th 2016 - 08:46 UTC

  Falklands' museum heritage adds 19th century port of Stanley painting

  

  Falkland Islands Museum Director Leona Roberts will be carrying a unique and valuable artistic insight into Falklands history when she returns to Stanley.

• Sunday, November 1st 2015 - 10:12 UTC

  Falklands' 'Hunt for Germany's lost battleships' DVD scheduled to be ready for Christmas

  

  ‘The hunt for Germany’s lost battleships’ a documentary based on Mensun Bound’s search for the lost fleet from the Battle of the Falklands was shown at a premiere at the British Film Institute, London on October 16.

• Monday, June 23rd 2014 - 22:06 UTC

  UKAH marks 70th anniversary of Operation Tabarin and Antarctica research

  

  The United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT) marked the 70th anniversary of Operation Tabarin, which laid the foundations for one of the most important and enduring government sponsored programs of scientific research in the Polar Regions, with a special exhibition and reception at the House of Commons.

• Monday, June 3rd 2013 - 05:02 UTC

  Falklands’ ex-governor Lamont chairman of the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust

  

  Donald Lamont, a former British ambassador and former governor of the Falkland Islands took over as chairman of the United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust. He replaces Philippa Foster Back, who retires from the position having served as trustee since 2000 and chair for the past seven years.