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Frank Worsley was born in the seaport of Akaroa, on the South Island of New Zealand. He became an apprentice seaman at 15 years of age, and had 27 years of experience, mainly with the New Zealand Shipping Company, the New Zealand Government Steamer Service, and the Allan Line Royal Mail Steamers, before he joined Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
Born at Akaroa on February 22, 1872, Frank Arthur Worsley was the third child of Henry and Georgiana Worsley. Henry had arrived in New Zealand from England in 1851 with his parents and several brothers and sisters, and, after his marriage, took up a run overlooking Akaroa. As well as raising cocksfoot as a seed crop, he owned a bullock team and ...
Frank Wild was educated at Bedford. He joined the Merchant Navy in 1889 at the age of 16, receiving his early training in sail in the clipper ship Sobraon. In the British Merchant Navy, he rose to the rank of second officer. In 1900, aged 26, he joined the Royal Navy. The 1901 census shows that at that time, aged 27, he was serving as an able ...
Frank Arthur Worsley, né le 22 février 1872 à Akaroa et mort le 1 er février 1943 à Claygate, est un marin et explorateur polaire néo-zélandais. Worsley rejoint la New Zealand Shipping Company en 1888 et sert à bord de plusieurs navires assurant des voyages sur des routes commerciales entre la Nouvelle-Zélande , le Royaume-Uni et l' océan Pacifique sud .
17 de feb. de 2000 · Frank Worsley was the Captain of the "Endurance", the ship on which Sir Ernest Shackleton and twenty-seven other men sailed to Antarctica in 1914 to attempt the first crossing ever of the South Polar continent from sea to sea. They never reached Antarctica.
Frank Arthur Worsley (1872-1943) was born in Akaroa. A sailor and explorer, he won renown through his navigation of the boat James Caird across the Southern Ocean in 1916, ultimately saving the men of Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-17) after their ship Endurance was crushed by ice.. He was also awarded the Distinguished Service Order medal twice during the ...
29 de mar. de 2022 · Endurance captain Frank Worsley’s incredible navigation skills. “I watched closely for the sun or stars to appear, to correct my chronometer, on the accuracy of which our lives and the success ...
