James Caird
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James Caird can refer to
- People
- Sir James Caird (agricultural writer) (1816-1892), writer and politician.
- Sir James Key Caird (1837-1916), a jute baron and philanthropist, sponsored Ernest Shackleton's Endurance Expedition.
- Sir James Caird (shipowner) (1864–1954), a founder of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
- Other
- James Caird (boat), a whaleboat named after James Key Caird, was used by Sir Ernest Shackleton to cross 800 miles of the Scotia Sea to save his shipwrecked crew marooned in the Antarctic.