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Colin Bishop:
There is a lot in the news at the moment about the search for the wreck of Shackleton's ship Endurance which was crushed by ice in the Antarctic in 1915.

I find this a bit difficult to understand really. The crew knew the ship would be crushed by the ice long before it went down and took everything useful off it. There were lots of photos taken of the ship when trapped in the ice. So what is the point of trying to find the wreck which will contain little of interest and for which the circumstances of her sinking are fully documented?

It is a very different situation to the earlier loss of Erebus and Terror during the Frankin expedition where the circumstances of their loss and the deaths of their crews are only still being pieced together.

https://secretsoftheice.com/news/2019/10/28/franklin-expedition/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/john-torrington-franklin-expedition-mummies

Colin

Footski:
Colin,
I totally agree with you, it does seem a bit of a waste of effort and money. That said, human beings are always inquisitive and just want to find it because they believe they can!

raflaunches:
Two ships that should be found, as we know very little of their final few minutes and only from the enemy point of view, are the wrecks of the HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth. As far as I’m aware I don’t think it’s been attempted. Considering the SMS Scharnhorst has been discovered in the last few years I think Craddock’s missing squadron should have the same honour.

Martin (Admin):
 
BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60239105


Side note: I did think the Kenneth Branagh, Shackleton, TV Mini Series, 2002, was exceptionally good.

               https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272839/

dodes:
Hi Nick, ref poor old Admiral Craddock, there is a small memorial to him in a graveyard close to Horndean , Hampshire. Also a book was written about 4 years ago by Steve R Dun explaining the politics and bad planning by the Admiralty in sending him South to engage a powerful modern squadron with two old toothless armoured cruisers, one modern light cruiser and a armed merchant cruiser.

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