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Agence France-Presse

Famed British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s last expedition ship Quest has been found at the bottom of the Atlantic off Canada’s coast, searchers announced on Wednesday.
Royal Canadian Geographical Society boss John Geiger told a news conference the shipwreck was found in the Labrador Sea at a depth of 390 metres (1,280 feet).
“This is a very important vessel historically. It was the final expedition ship of Sir Shackleton,” Geiger said.
“He died on this ship on his final expedition” to Antarctica, Geiger said – though the vessel remained in use for decades after until it sank in the 1960s.

Searchers using sonar discovered the wooden-hulled, schooner-rigged steamship on Sunday.
Shipwreck hunter David Mearns said they measured its precise dimensions and compared them to the known dimensions of the Quest, “and they’re spot on”.
“The wreckage also is consistent with what we know about the sinking event, and it’s in the right location where there are no other shipwrecks of this type at all. So that gives us the confidence to say that this is the Quest,” he said.
Mearns showed sonar images of the wreck and described it as “largely intact”, lying upright on its keel and slightly canted over to its port side, while its main mast was found on the seabed.
He said another expedition later this year will aim to photograph and further document the shipwreck.
Shackleton went down in expeditionary legend after an epic escape he and his 27 companions made – on foot and in boats – after another of his ships, Endurance, sank in icy seas off Antarctica in 1915.
The crew first camped on the sea ice, drifting northwards until the ice cracked open, and then took to lifeboats, sailing first to Elephant Island, a bleak and treeless place where most of the men were dropped off and set up a camp.

Using just a sextant for navigation, Shackleton then took five others in the strongest and most seaworthy boat on a 1,300km (800-mile) voyage to South Georgia, a British colony where there was a whaling station.
Defying mountainous seas and freezing temperatures, the 17-day trek in the small open boat is considered one of the most remarkable achievements in maritime history. All 28 expedition members survived.
Seven years later, Shackleton died of a heart attack at age 47 aboard the Quest when the ship was anchored off the coast of South Georgia.
The Quest went on to be used for other expeditions, Arctic rescues, and by the Canadian navy as a minesweeper during the Second World War before resuming its original work as a seal hunting vessel.
In 1962 it was damaged by ice and sank off the coast of Newfoundland. All of its Norwegian crew survived.


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British explorer Ernest Shackleton’s last ship found off Canada coast

A sonar image shows the wreck of the Quest on the seabed. Photo: Royal Canadian Geographical Society via Reuters

The Quest sinking in 1962. File photo: Royal Canadian Geographical Society via AP

The remains of the Endurance, which sank off Antarctica in 1915. Photo: Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust via dpa

How Shackleton’s doomed Antarctic ship Endurance was found a century after it sank

Endurance was discovered at a depth of 3,000 metres in the Weddell Sea, about 6km from where it was slowly crushed by pack ice in 1915. File photo: AP

The bow of the wreck of Endurance. Photo: Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust/National Georgraphic via AP

The stern of the wreck of Endurance. Photo: Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust/National Georgraphic via AP

The taffrail, ship’s wheel and aft well deck on the wreck of Endurance. Photo: Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust

The expedition Endurance22 embarked from South Africa in early February in a ship capable of breaking through metre-thick ice. Photo: dpa

Shackleton’s Antarctic voyage to be recreated by rowing team honouring Harry ‘Chippy’ McNish

Fiann Paul rows across The Drake Passage in 2020 - he is now leading a team to recreate Shackleton’s voyage. Photo: Handout

Paul and Douglas-Hamiton were both on the crew that crossed the Drake Passage. Photo: Handout

Frank Worsley and another crew member looking down on the Endurance in South Georgia before departing for the doomed adventure. Photo: Frank Hurley

British-Australian team successfully recreates Shackleton's journey

Tim Jarvis and Barry Gray began the trip in a lifeboat. Photo: AFP

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Ernest Shackleton died on the Quest on his final expedition to Antarctica, though the vessel remained in use until it sank in the 1960s


Ernest Shackleton died on the Quest on his final expedition to Antarctica, though the vessel remained in use until it sank in the 1960s.


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