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Pandemic Preservation Projects Save Sailors Sanity 11th March 2021 The newly-restored 1969 Nich 43 Hunza being sailed by Andrew Wilkes in Arrecife Harbour in the Canaries Credit: Maire Breathnach A busy ship, the old saying goes, is a happy ship. And a sailor in enforced idleness can be – at the very least - one decidedly grumpy so-and-so. Thus the multiple limitations of pandemic lockdowns have posed a challenge to people who are only kept happy by having at least one project on the go. But it has taken some ingenuity for normally active out-and-about sailing types to find an absorbing task that enables them to stay within the walls without going up those same walls. ....
National Maritime Museum to Host Virtual Talk on Ernest Shackleton 15th February 2021 Shackleton s ship Endurance embedded in the Antarctic ice of the Weddell Sea – one of Frank Hurley s remarkable photos which have done so much to immortalise an extraordinary expedition. In almost every crisis or period of exceptional and continuing difficulty - such as we re living through now - people will hope to relate to the ultimately successful example of survival to be found in the experiences of Polar explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-1916. He may not have achieved his objective of crossing the Antarctic landmass, but he and his crew survived a ten month period ice-embedded in the Weddell Sea in their ship Endurance. And when she was finally crushed, Shackleton successfully led the way in an heroic journey across the ice floes for another five months, and then across the Southern Ocean by small boat such that, in ....