Researcher rewrites the history of one of the world’s most famous shipwrecks 110 years later

The misfortune of the British naval ship HMS Endurance resulted in one of the most famous survival stories of all time. Now, the history of the disaster is being rewritten.

Irish polar explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton kept a crew of 27 men alive for over a year after the vessel became trapped in ice off the coast of Antarctica, fighting blistering winds and freezing conditions.