Final week, the ship was positioned intact at a depth of 390 meters off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada, Frammuseet informs in a press launch.
Quest, which was initially constructed as a sealing vessel in 1917 in Risør, was Shackleton’s final expedition ship. It was used within the so-called Shackleton-Rowett expedition in 1921–22.
However the expedition didn’t go as deliberate, and Shackleton later died on board the ship, aged simply 47. He was buried in Grytviken within the South Georgia archipelago within the South Atlantic.
– Shackleton was identified for his braveness and disaster administration. The tragic irony is that his dying was the one dying that occurred on any of the ships below his command, says John Geiger, who has led the seek for the schooner.
After Shackleton’s dying, the schooner was purchased once more by a Norwegian delivery firm earlier than it lastly sank in 1962. However earlier than that point it took half in lots of historic expeditions, together with the seek for Roald Amundsen when he disappeared in 1928.
In March 2022, the information got here that Shackleton’s most well-known ship Endurance had been discovered 3,000 meters down on the seabed in Antarctica. By then, over 100 years had handed for the reason that Norwegian-built schooner sank dramatically, triggering some of the dramatic occasions in polar historical past in a arduous battle for survival.
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