Tag: HMS Endurance

• 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.

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• Friday, January 11th 2019 - 08:09 UTC

  Falklander leads Shackleton's “Endurance” search team in Weddell Sea

  

  Following on from Penguin News’ interview last week with Islander Mensun Bound, who was involved in the search for the Argentine submarine Ara San Juan, Mr Bound spoke of his current project, the search for Shackleton’s ship Endurance.

• Sunday, January 29th 2017 - 09:57 UTC

  Damaged cruise vessel ready to leave Ushuaia on a piggy-back trip to Europe

  

  A major rescue operation took place in Ushuaia, Argentine Tierra del Fuego when a cruise vessel from National Geographic, which was non operational since limping back from Antarctica a month ago was hauled on to a special tug-carrier and is now preparing for its piggy-back trip to a Dutch ship yard for repairs.

• Monday, May 30th 2016 - 07:13 UTC

  Chilean rescue of Shackleton's crew from Elephant Island marked at British residence

  

  A networking reception was held in the British residence on Wednesday 25 May to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the rescue by the Chilean pilot Luis Pardo, of the Armada de Chile, of Ernest Shackleton’s crew from Elephant Island.

• Monday, September 7th 2015 - 08:52 UTC

  HMS Endurance up for sale; she never recovered from the 2008 accident

  

  The Royal Navy has put its Ice Patrol ship, HMS Endurance, up for sale. The icebreaker served as the Royal Navy ice patrol ship between 1991 and 2008 before an accident during routine maintenance destroyed a large part of her equipment.

• Tuesday, March 24th 2015 - 04:36 UTC

  Argentines fly the flag in South Georgia, 33 years ago

  

  Ushuaia daily Diario Fin del Mundo recalls that 33 years ago on 19 March 1982, the Argentine navy transport vessel ARA Bahía Buen Suceso landed in South Georgia a party of workers on contract to dismantle remains of the whaling station, and on arriving raised the Argentine flag. An incident which was to lead to the full-fledged conflict the following month.

• Saturday, September 13th 2014 - 05:37 UTC

  Falklands and the ”unwelcome visits from (Argentine) aircraft”

  

  Gerald Cheek, now retired from his position as Falkland Islands Director of Civil Aviation, has addressed a letter to the Penguin News clarifying some details about the 'Unwelcome visits from aircraft', clearly in reference to episodes of Argentine aircraft incursion and landing in the Islands.

• Monday, August 11th 2014 - 22:56 UTC

  Falkland Islands and the saga of Sir Ernest Shackleton a century ago

  

  One hundred years ago this month Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail from Plymouth on HMS Endurance at the beginning of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-17), also known as the Endurance Expedition.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2013 - 18:15 UTC

  HMS Protector leaves for Antarctica from Portsmouth but will return to Davenport

  

  Royal Navy’s newest ice patrol ship HMS Protector leaves Portsmouth this week on deployment to Antarctica, but she will be returning to Davenport, where she is to be based in the future.

• Thursday, October 10th 2013 - 01:25 UTC

  Ice patrol HMS Endurance a complete loss, will be scrapped says MOD

  

  The Royal Navy's former ice patrol ship HMS Endurance is to be scrapped after the Ministry of Defense decided the cost of repairing the vessel, which flooded off the coast of Chile in 2008, was too great.