Tag: Mensun Bound

• Sunday, December 1st 2024 - 21:25 UTC

  Battle of Falklands, commemoration of the 110th anniversary of the great naval engagement of 8 December 1914

  

  Next Sunday, the 8th December 2024, the Falkland Islands commemorate the 110th anniversary of the first great victory of the Royal Navy in the First World War. The Falklands naval engagement took place to the south east of the Islands, chasing and sinking the pride of the German Imperial Navy, the East Asia squadron led by Admiral Graf von Spee.

• Monday, November 4th 2024 - 20:08 UTC

  New deep-sea video uncovers remarkable details of Shackleton’s Endurance wreck

  

  A recently released deep-sea video by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust (FMHT) unveils remarkable finds aboard Sir Ernest Shackleton’s legendary ship Endurance, which sank over a century ago.

• Saturday, November 2nd 2024 - 12:57 UTC

  New documentary “Endurance” chronicles Sir Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic voyage

  

  A new documentary titled Endurance has premiered, bringing to life the remarkable survival story of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition. The film, from National Geographic Documentary Films, combines restored archival footage of the century-old expedition with the modern-day quest to discover the wreckage of Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, which was found in 2022. The documentary is directed by Academy Award® winners Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, along with BAFTA® nominee Natalie Hewit.

• 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, October 12th 2024 - 11:20 UTC

  Premier of the discovery of the “Endurance” at the London Film Festival

  

  This Saturday, October 12, a documentary film about the discovery of the ship “Endurance” by the great Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton will be presented at the London Film Festival.

• 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, July 13th 2024 - 10:02 UTC

  UKHAT Conservation Plan for protecting “Endurance”, Shackleton's iconic vessel

  

  The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust are proud to announce the Conservation Management Plan (CMP) for one of the most famous shipwrecks of all time – Shackleton’s Endurance – has been published and is available to view on the site, enduranceshipwreck.org.

• Monday, October 30th 2023 - 17:36 UTC

  The Wavertree and the Endurance; talk at South Street Seaport Museum, New York

  

  On Tuesday, September 26th, at the South Street Seaport Museum in New York, Falkland Islander, Mensun Bound gave a lecture followed by a book signing of The Ship Beneath the Ice – The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance. The event occurred onboard the Wavertree, an old square rigger condemned at Port Stanley in 1910. This gathering was the culmination of a year-long book tour spanning the UK, USA, Canada, and parts of Europe and Scandinavia, during which time the book rose to Number 2 in the UK Best-Seller List.

• Saturday, June 17th 2023 - 10:22 UTC

  The Nazi eagle of battleship Graf von Spee to become a dove of peace

  

  The man-sized, 350 kilos bronze eagle holding the Nazi emblem in its claws, rescued from the remains of the German battleship scuttled in the River Plate will be turned into a dove of peace, to be located somewhere along the Uruguayan coast where the mighty River Plate becomes the Atlantic Ocean.

• Thursday, March 2nd 2023 - 10:14 UTC

  Key members of the Irish Diaspora recognised at the inaugural Business Post Global Irish Diaspora Awards

  

  The Business Post Global Irish Diaspora Awards were held at the Waldorf Hilton, London on Friday, February 24, 2023. With over 70 million people across the globe who claim Irish ancestry, these awards have been established to recognize and celebrate the vast contribution to the world of business that Ireland and its people have made.