24 March 1916: Wireless message from the Aurora, Shackleton’s Ross Sea ship, received in Australia:
Joseph Stenhouse
“Hull severely strained. Ship released from ice March 14th … drift 500 miles … Wireless appeals for relief ship sent during winter no acknowledgment. Ship proceeding Port Chalmers, New Zealand. Jury rudder no anchors short of fuel.”
— Joseph Stenhouse (First Mate, Aurora)
“It was the first news of Shackleton’s expedition, either branch, since its departure in 1914.”
— Roland Huntford, Shackleton
About Ernest Shackleton
Polar Explorer. Leader of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917.
