In the late 1940s, as the Soviet Navy rapidly expanded and submarine threats grew more sophisticated, the Royal Air Force ...

The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight’s Avro Lancaster has flown to Duxford to begin a planned period of maintenance that will see it miss the 2026 display season. Avro Lancaster PA474 was built in ...

Explorer's cabin had been used as a shed in Norway for most of a century — but now it's been brought back to his Irish birthplace and meticulously restored Ernest Shackleton on board the Endurance in ...

A new museum dedicated to the life of the explorer Ernest Shackleton opens in Athy in Co Kildare today. The Shackleton Experience uses artefacts and interactive elements to try and recreate the ...

It isn’t every day that the most famous story of human survival gets an update. But the century-old tale of the Shackleton Expedition—you know, one in which marooned sailors survived off of seal ...

Oct. 6 (UPI) --Sir Ernest Shackleton's polar ship, Endurance, was considered to be the strongest of its time but the vessel had significant structural weaknesses that caused its demise -- and an ...

EXPERTS have discovered the real reasons Ernest Shackleton’s ship sank on its ill-fated Antarctic expedition in 1915. And it suggests the famed polar explorer may have known the Endurance ship wasn’t ...

Issues with the ship's hull, deck beams, and more show the ship was no match for Antarctic sea ice. By Laura Baisas Published Oct 6, 2025 6:00 AM EDT Image: Photo by Frank Hurley/Scott Polar Research ...

It has been 110 years since Endurance, often described as the strongest wooden ship ever built, sank after becoming trapped in sea ice near Antarctica. But a reassessment of the evidence reveals that ...

The explorer’s journey to Antarctica was likely doomed before it began. By Sara Novak On Oct. 27, 1915, after being caught and crushed by packed ice for nine months in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica, ...

Ernest Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, infamously sank in Antarctica — and now a new study finds that it had known flaws. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...