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How many of Shackleton's 28 Endurance crewmen died on the 1914-1916 expedition?
All 28 survived. After the Endurance was crushed in November 1915, Shackleton crossed 800 miles of southern ocean in an open lifeboat to South Georgia and brought a rescue ship back to Elephant Island in August 1916.
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The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition That Never Reached Antarctica Because the Ship Was Crushed in the Ice and Whose Twenty-Eight Men All Survived Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance was beset in the Weddell Sea pack ice on 19 January 1915 and was crushed and sank on 21 November 1915. The twenty-eight men reached uninhabited Elephant Island in April 1916; Shackleton then crossed 800 miles of the southern ocean in an open lifeboat to South Georgia. All twenty-eight survived. The wreck was located on the Weddell Sea floor in 2022.
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