Endurance
shipwreck
Current position
No live position received yet. Identity and particulars below.
Identity & particulars
- Name
- Endurance
- IMO number
- 1136698
- MMSI
- —
- Call sign
- —
- Flag
- —
- Vessel type
- shipwreck
- Gross tonnage
- —
- Deadweight (DWT)
- —
- Length overall
- 44 m
- Beam
- 7.6 m
- Year built
- 1912
- Builder
- Framnæs Mekaniske Værksted
- Registered owner
- Ernest Shackleton
- Operator
- —
Particulars are enriched from public sources as they become available. Position & identity are derived live from AIS.
About Endurance
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 Polaris, was built at Framnæs shipyard and launched in 1912 from Sandefjord in Norway. When one of her commissioners, the Belgian Adrien de Gerlache, went bankrupt, the remaining one sold the ship for less than the shipyard had charged – but as Lars Christensen was the owner of Polaris, as well as of the yard, there was no hardship involved. The ship was bought by Shackleton in January 1914 for the expedition, which would be her first voyage. A year later, she became trapped in pack ice and finally sank in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica on 21 November 1915.
Summary from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA.
Frequently asked questions
- Where is Endurance now?
- Endurance has not transmitted a live position recently. Its identity and particulars are kept on this page, and its position will appear here the moment it is detected on AIS again.
- What kind of ship is Endurance?
- Endurance is a shipwreck, built in 1912 by Framnæs Mekaniske Værksted. The vessel is 44 m long with a beam of 7.6 m.
- Who owns Endurance?
- Endurance is registered to Ernest Shackleton. Ownership data is compiled from public registries and shown free on Seadar.
- Has Endurance been detained or sanctioned?
- No detentions or sanctions for Endurance appear in the public sources Seadar tracks (USCG PSIX inspections and the OFAC SDN list).