A pair of Royal Navy and Royal Marines adventurers has completed a summer of sea trials as they prepare to take an authentic replica of ... the replica of the 'James Caird' - Shackleton's lifeboat ...

The 6.86-metre-long boat is a precise replica of the James Caird. Her crew will also endure the hardships of that age, wearing clothing of the time. All the rigging and features on the whaler have ...

Tim Jarvis’s Plan to Cross the Antarctic in an Exact Replica of the James Caird K. Annabelle Smith The original lifeboat, the James Caird, built in 1914, had an open top, exposing its ...

In the 1990s Trevor Potts built a replica of the James Caird to sail to South Georgia. The boat’s legacy lives on through the James Caird Society. It is an extraordinary story. They shouldn’t ...

The vessel in which Sir Ernest Shackleton completed his celebrated boat journey across the treacherous Southern Ocean has scaled new heights in New Zealand when it was winched through a fourth-floor ...

The James Caird is a small, open boat, just 23ft-long, in which six men sailed, in the winter of 1916, from Elephant Island, south of Cape Horn, to South Georgia, 800 miles through the gales and ...

People who see the James Caird for the first time are always surprised, says Alexandra Shackleton. "They find it difficult to believe that this little boat, less than 24 feet long, sailed 800 ...

Desperate, Shackleton and five others embarked on the 800-mile mission across the Southern Ocean in the James Caird, a dinky, 22.5-foot, oak-framed lifeboat. Seventeen days of frigid winds and ...