motor-engine

Updated: June 3, 2025

The motor-engine had broken down and we were entirely dependent on the sails. We managed to make a little southing during the next day, but noon found us 108 miles from the island. That night we lay off the ice in a gale, hove to, and morning found the schooner iced up.

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton - South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition