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    The voyage of the James Caird was a journey of 1,300 kilometres (800 mi) from Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands through the Southern Ocean...
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    epic voyage of 700 nautical miles (1,300 km) from Elephant Island to South Georgia, was named in appreciation of Caird's contribution. James Caird was...
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    that time the boat would be lost. The 22.5-foot (6.9 m) James Caird was launched on 24 April 1916. The success of the voyage depended on the pin-point...
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  • Antarctica. Shackleton then led a crew of five aboard the James Caird, the best surviving open boat, through the Drake Passage, even though there were no sun appearances...
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    Frank Worsley (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    Elephant Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula. From there, Worsley, Shackleton and four others sailed the 6.9m (22.5-foot) lifeboat James Caird 1,300 km (800...
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    Perce Blackborow (category Personnel of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition)
    with Shackleton and the James Caird crew having been away for a month, Macklin, assisted by James McIlroy, amputated the toes of Blackborow's left foot...
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    Elephant Island (category Historic Sites and Monuments of Antarctica)
    McNish, Tim McCarthy, and John Vincent on a 1,300 km (800 mi) voyage in the lifeboat James Caird beginning on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, and arriving at...
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  • website of the National Maritime Museum, first published in the magazine Sailing Today, Issue 75, July 2003. "Excerpt: The Voyage of the James Caird by Ernest...
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    Lionel Greenstreet (category Personnel of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition)
    jury-rigged canvas deck to enable the sole remaining sail-worthy lifeboat of the ship's company, the James Caird, to navigate in the open sea. Worsley, whose life...
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    Harry McNish (category Personnel of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition)
    modified the small boat, James Caird, that allowed Shackleton and five men (including McNish) to make a voyage of hundreds of miles to fetch help for the rest...
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