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Frank Arthur Worsley DSO* OBE RD (22 February 1872 – 1 February 1943) was a New Zealand sailor and explorer who served on Ernest Shackleton 's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1916, as captain of Endurance. He also served in the Royal Navy Reserve during the First World War .
Frank Arthur Worsley ( Akaroa, 22 febbraio 1872 – Elmbridge, 1º febbraio 1943) è stato un esploratore e navigatore neozelandese . Indice. 1 Biografia. 2 Opere. 3 Note. 4 Altri progetti. 5 Collegamenti esterni. Biografia.
Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition (Endurance), 1914-17. Frank Hurley photograph Canterbury Museum 1917. In 1914, with nearly 27 years’ experience behind him, Sir Ernest Shackleton hired Worsley on the spot for his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition and made him captain of the expedition ship Endurance. The expedition party were forced to ...
Frank Worsley was a New Zealander, born in Akaroa. He became an apprentice to the merchant navy at the age of 15 serving on both sailing and steam ships. He returned to sea after the Endurance expedition, commanding "Q boats" in the First World War - anti-submarine boats disguised as merchant shipping.
10 mar 2022 · Quando alla fine l’imbarcazione, schiacciata dai ghiacci, è affondata, il capitano dell’ Endurance, Frank Worsley, ha fatto delle misurazioni per stabilirne la posizione usando un sestante, e ha registrato le informazioni sul proprio diario.
10 mar 2022 · Frank Worsley. National Library of Australia via Wikimedia Commons. The Endurance had left England in August 1914, with the Irishman Shackleton hoping to become the first to cross the Antarctic...
12 feb 2018 · Frank Worsley wondered “why people had always pictured Hell as a place that was hot,” instead of a realm as “cold as the ice which seemed likely to become our grave.”
