Endurance is shown in the winter of 1915. The ship became stuck in ice and eventually sank. A new paper says it wasn't as well-built as previously believed. A new research paper about the vessel ...

Sir Ernest Shackleton's polar exploration ship Endurance sank because it lacked beams to prevent compression ice from crushing its hull, according to an analysis. Photo courtesy Aalto University Oct.

The 'Endurance' leaning to one side, during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-17, led by Sir Ernest Shackleton. “Comparison with other early wooden polar ships is not favourable for ...

What if one of the most famous and formidable Antarctic exploration vessels in history, whose crew's story of shipwreck and survival has been told for more than a century, wasn't as strong as legend ...