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Quest was a low-powered, schooner-rigged steamship that sailed from 1917 until sinking in 1962, best known as the polar exploration vessel of the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition of 1921–1922. It was aboa
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Quest under Tower Bridge, 1921
The crow's nest from the 1921–1922 voyage
Shackleton–Rowett Expedition
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The Shackleton–Rowett Expedition was Sir Ernest Shackleton's last Antarctic project, and the final episode in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Quest (ship)
…Quest was a low-powered, schooner-rigged steamship that sailed from 1917 until sinking in 1962, best known as the polar exploration vessel of the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition of 1921–1922. It was aboard this vessel that Sir Ernest Shackleton died on 5 January 1922 while in harbour in South Georgia. Prior to and after the…
Expedition ship Quest, moored in St Katharine Docks, London
Dense pack ice in the Beaufort Sea
Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition's leader
Frank Wild, second-in-command on the expedition