{"id":19792,"date":"2022-06-20T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/?p=19792"},"modified":"2022-06-14T23:13:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T06:13:59","slug":"sylum-inspiration-ernest-henry-shackleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-inspiration-ernest-henry-shackleton\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylum Inspiration: Ernest Henry Shackleton"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ernest Shackleton<\/a> was born on 15th February, 1874AD, in Kilkea near Athy, County Kildare, Ireland, about 46 miles (74 km) from Dublin.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ernest\u2019s father was Henry Shackleton, and his mother was Henrietta Letitia Sophia Gavan. \u00a0His father\u2019s family was Anglo-Irish, originally from Yorkshire, England. \u00a0His mother\u2019s family was Irish, from Counties Cork and Kerry.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ernest was the second of their ten children and the first of two sons; the second, Frank, achieved notoriety as a suspect (later exonerated) in the 1907AD theft of Ireland\u2019s Crown Jewels. \u00a0In 1880AD, when Ernest was six, Henry Shackleton gave up his life as a landowner to study medicine at Trinity College, Dublin, moving his family into the city. \u00a0Four years later, the family moved again, from Ireland to Sydenham in suburban London. \u00a0Partly, this was in search of better professional prospects for the newly qualified doctor, but another factor may have been unease about their Anglo-Irish ancestry, following the assassination by Irish Nationalists of Lord Frederick Cavendish, the British Chief Secretary for Ireland, in 1882AD.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shackleton\u2019s restlessness at school was such, that he was allowed to leave at 16 years of age, and go to sea. \u00a0The options available to him, were a Royal Naval Cadetship at HMS Britannia, which Dr Shackleton could not afford; the mercantile marine cadet ships Worcester and Conway; or an apprenticeship \u2018before the mast\u2019 on a sailing vessel. \u00a0The third option was chosen.<\/span><\/p>\n

His father was able to secure him a berth with the North Western Shipping Company, aboard the square-rigged sailing ship Hoghton Tower. \u00a0During the following four years at sea, Shackleton learned his trade, visiting the far corners of the earth and forming acquaintances with a variety of people from many walks of life, learning to be at home with all kinds of men. \u00a0In August 1894AD, he passed his examination for Second Mate and accepted a post as Third Officer on a Tramp Steamer of the Welsh Shire Line. \u00a0Two years later, he had obtained his First Mate\u2019s ticket, and in 1898AD, he was certified as a Master Mariner, qualifying him to command a British ship anywhere in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

The National Antarctic Expedition, known as the Discovery Expedition after the ship Discovery, was the brainchild of Sir Clements Markham, President of the Royal Geographical Society, and had been many years in preparation. \u00a0It was led by Robert Falcon Scott, a Royal Navy torpedo Lieutenant lately promoted Commander, and had objectives that included scientific and geographical discovery. \u00a0Although Discovery was not a Royal Navy unit, Scott required the crew, officers and scientific staff to accept voluntarily the conditions of the Naval Discipline Act, and the ship and expedition were run on Royal Navy lines. \u00a0Shackleton accepted this, even though his own background and instincts favoured a different, more informal style of leadership. \u00a0Shackleton\u2019s particular duties were listed as: \u201cIn charge of seawater analysis. \u00a0Ward Room caterer. \u00a0In charge of holds, stores and provisions. \u00a0He also arranges the entertainments.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Discovery departed London on 31st July, 1901AD, arriving at the Antarctic coast, via Cape Town and New Zealand, on 8th January, 1902AD.<\/span><\/p>\n

After landing, Shackleton took part in an experimental balloon flight on 4th February, 1902AD. \u00a0He also participated, with the scientists Edward Wilson and Hartley Ferrar, in the first sledging trip from the expedition\u2019s winter quarters in McMurdo Sound \u2013 a journey which established a safe route onto the Great Ice Barrier. \u00a0During the Antarctic winter of 1902AD, in the confines of the iced-in Discovery, Shackleton edited the expedition\u2019s magazine \u2018The South Polar Times\u2019. \u00a0According to Steward Clarence Hare, he was \u201cthe most popular of the officers among the crew, being a good mixer\u201d, though claims that this represented an unofficial rival leadership to Scott\u2019s are unsupported.<\/span><\/p>\n

Scott chose Shackleton to accompany Wilson and himself on the expedition\u2019s southern journey, a march southwards to achieve the highest possible latitude in the direction of the South Pole. \u00a0This march was not a serious attempt on the Pole, although the attainment of a high latitude was of great importance to Scott, and the inclusion of Shackleton indicated a high degree of personal trust.<\/span><\/p>\n

The party set out on 2nd November, 1902AD. \u00a0The march was, Scott wrote later, \u201ca combination of success and failure\u201d. \u00a0A record Farthest South latitude of 82\u00b0 17\u2032 was reached, beating the previous record established in 1900AD, by Carsten Borchgrevink. \u00a0The journey was marred by the poor performance of the dogs, whose food had become tainted, and who rapidly fell sick. \u00a0All 22 dogs died during the march. \u00a0The three men all suffered at times from snow blindness, frostbite and ultimately, scurvy. \u00a0On the return journey, Shackleton had by his own admission \u201cbroken down\u201d and could no longer carry out his share of the work. \u00a0He would later deny Scott\u2019s claim in \u2018The Voyage of the Discovery\u2019, that he had been carried on the sledge. \u00a0However, he was in a seriously weakened condition. \u00a0Wilson\u2019s diary entry for 14th January, 1903AD reads: \u201cShackleton has been anything but up to the mark, and today he is decidedly worse, very short winded and coughing constantly, with more serious symptoms that need not be detailed here but which are of no small consequence one hundred and sixty miles from the ship\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

On 4th February, 1903AD, the party finally reached the ship. \u00a0After a medical examination (which proved inconclusive), Scott decided to send Shackleton home on the relief ship Morning, which had arrived in McMurdo Sound in January 1903AD. \u00a0Scott wrote: \u201cHe ought not to risk further hardship in his present state of health.\u201d \u00a0There is conjecture that Scott\u2019s motives for removing him was resentment of Shackleton\u2019s popularity, and that ill-health was used as an excuse to get rid of him. \u00a0Years after the deaths of Scott, Wilson and Shackleton, Albert Armitage, the expedition\u2019s Second-in-Command, claimed that there had been a falling-out on the southern journey, and that Scott had told the ship\u2019s doctor, \u201cif he does not go back sick he will go back in disgrace.\u201d \u00a0There is no corroboration of Armitage\u2019s story however.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shackleton and Scott stayed on friendly terms, at least until the publication of Scott\u2019s account of the southern journey in \u2018The Voyage of the Discovery\u2019. \u00a0Although in public they remained mutually respectful and cordial, according to biographer Roland Huntford, Shackleton\u2019s attitude to Scott turned to \u201csmouldering scorn and dislike\u201d, and salvage of wounded pride required \u201ca return to the Antarctic and an attempt to outdo Scott\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

For More Information Contact th<\/span>e\u00a0Vampire Council Library<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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