Tom Crean (explorer)
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Thomas Crean was an Irish seaman and Antarctic explorer who was awarded the Albert Medal for Lifesaving.
Crean on the Endurance Expedition, February 1915
Aerial view of Hut Point, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica – the location of Discovery's base, in 1902–04
Scott's polar party at 87°S, 31 December 1911, before Crean's return with the last supporting party
Petty officers Edgar Evans and Crean mending sleeping bags (May 1911)
Endurance (1912 ship)
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Endurance was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The ship, originally named
Tom Crean (explorer)
…Terra Nova, Crean's third and final Antarctic venture was as second officer on Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. After the ship Endurance became beset in the pack ice and sank, Crean and the ship's company spent 492 days drifting on the ice before undertaking a journey in the ship's…
Endurance under full sail trying to break through pack ice in the Weddell Sea on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1915 Paget colour photograph by Frank Hurley.
Shackleton's ship Endurance illuminated at night, 1915
Endurance listing badly
Endurance sinking, November 1915