WORSLEY (Frank A., Captain on Shackleton’s Voyage of the Endurance, a New Zealander, ran away to sea at 16, navigated Shackleton’s lifeboat the James Caird across 800 miles of dangerous seas to South Georgia Island)

Signature in pencil on an album leaf inscribed in another hand “subscribed by... D.S.O.R.N Commander of the Quest R.Y.S. 23.8.21”

The Shackleton–Rowett Expedition (1921–22) was Sir Ernest Shackleton's last Antarctic project, and the final episode in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. The venture, financed by John Quiller Rowett, is sometimes referred to as the Quest Expedition after its ship Quest, a converted Norwegian sealer. Shackleton had originally intended to go to the Arctic and explore the Beaufort Sea, but this plan was abandoned when the Canadian government withheld financial support; Shackleton thereupon switched his attention to the Antarctic. Quest, smaller than any recent Antarctic exploration vessel, soon proved inadequate for the task, and progress south was delayed by her poor sailing performance and frequent engine problems. Before the expedition's work could properly begin, Shackleton died on board the ship, just after arriving at the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia.
Quest sailed from St Katharine Docks, London, on 17th September 1921, after inspection by King George V.

Item Date:  1933

Stock No:  42983      £125

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