Tag: Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust

• Thursday, April 24th 2025 - 06:53 UTC

  Mensun Bound Inspires at Ocean Business 2025, Southampton

  

  Mensun Bound, renowned maritime archaeologist and Trustee of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust (FMHT), delivered a powerful keynote speech at the prestigious launch of Ocean Business 2025, held earlier this month in Southampton.

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• Tuesday, April 8th 2025 - 23:47 UTC

  Mensun Bound highlights Ocean Heritage at Ocean Business 2025 launch in Southampton

  

  Renowned maritime archaeologist Mensun Bound delivered the keynote address today at the opening of Ocean Business 2025, a leading global event for ocean science and technology professionals.

• Friday, December 6th 2024 - 09:25 UTC

  Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust appoints first chief operating officer

  

  The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust (FMHT) has announced the appointment of Elena Lewendon as its first Chief Operating Officer, marking a pivotal moment in the charity’s history. Lewendon, currently CEO of The Apsley Paper Trail, will assume her new role on January 1, 2025.

• 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.

• Saturday, July 13th 2024 - 10:12 UTC

  Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and a bit of history on Eundurance22

  

  On 5th March 2022 the Endurance22 Expedition, organized and funded by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, located the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s iconic three-masted polar sailing ship, Endurance, which had not been seen since it was crushed by ice in the Weddell Sea in 1915. Among the team of Endurance 22 was Mensun Bound, a Falklands born maritime archeologist who was Director of Exploration.

• 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.