On board which ship did explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton die in 1922?
Personnel of the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition in all, but only 19 were on board for the start of the Antarctic portion (Hussey accompanied Shackleton's body when it was put on board a ship for England, and Eriksen, Mooney and Bee-Mason had left before the ship reached South Georgia). Gerald Lysaght, a yachtsman, accompanied the crew from Plymouth to Cape Verde. Personnel of the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition The Shackleton–Rowett Expedition, 1921–22, was the last Antarctic expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton. Proposed as an ambitious two-year programme of Antarctic exploration it was curtailed by the death of Shackleton and the inadequacies of the expedition's ship, "Quest". Under the
RRS Ernest Shackleton RRS Ernest Shackleton RRS "Ernest Shackleton" is a Royal Research Ship operated by the British Antarctic Survey. She is primarily a logistics ship used for the resupply of scientific stations in the Antarctic. Launched in 1995 as MV "Polar Queen" for GC Rieber Shipping, she was operated in the Antarctic by other national programmes. The British Antarctic Survey acquired her on a long-term bareboat charter in August 1999 and renamed her RRS "Ernest Shackleton" after the Anglo-Irish polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. She replaced RRS "Bransfield". Known to users as the Shack, the ship was chartered to Crystal Cruise Line