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Subject: [OM] IMGs: Newly Digitised Shackleton Photos
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 07:37:46 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
     The Royal Geographical Society has digitised more of the photos from 
Shackleton's ill-fated Antarctica expedition:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34856379

     I don't know as I have seen the very first one before, as it reveals the 
rigging configuration of the Endurance that I had not realised.  The foremast 
is rigged much like the single-masted (later refitted as a brigantine) 18th 
century sloop "Lady Washington" that I've recently seen, with a gaff rigged 
sail together with the square rigged sails.  The main and mizzen masts of the 
Endurance are both gaff rigged.  Pretty odd for an open-sea vessel, more like a 
coastal cargo ship (aka coaster).


Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
     - Hunter S. Thompson
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