That’s a great story, Jez.
Chris
> On 21 Nov 2015, at 15:10, Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Aah. He went to my school and one of his boats, The James Caird, is on
> display there.
> Back in the day, we just knew it as 'Shackleton's Boat'.
>
> "It was in the James Caird, a 23 foot whaler, that he and five companions
> made the epic open boat voyage of 800 miles (1,300 km) from Elephant
> Island, 500 miles (800 km) south of Cape Horn, to South Georgia during the
> Antarctic winter of 1916."
>
> http://www.dulwich.org.uk/oas-development/old-alleynians/alumni-profiles/well-known-alumni-from-our-past/ernest-shackleton
>
> <http://www.dulwich.org.uk/oas-development/old-alleynians/alumni-profiles/well-known-alumni-from-our-past/ernest-shackleton>
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