HMS Endurance

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).

There have been two Royal Navy ships with the name HMS Endurance. Both were named after Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance, the ship crushed in the ice of the Weddell Sea during the expedition to Antarctica from 1914 to 1915. The ships' motto, Fortitudine Vinvimus (By Endurance We Conquer), originates from that of Shackleton.

[edit] First Endurance

The first HMS Endurance, pennant number A171, formerly the Anita Dan, served as the Antarctic ice patrol vessel from 1967 to 1991.

[edit] Second Endurance

The second HMS Endurance, also A171, formerly the MV Polar Circle (A167), is a class 1A1 icebreaker in service since 1991 as an Antarctic ice patrol and survey ship.

This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../h/m/s/HMS_Endurance_61f7.html"
In other languages