Interview - This month, as we mark the centenary of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition, Petty Officer Seb Coulthard of the Royal Navy reflects on the marine engineering skills of a hundred years ago

摘要

SEB COULTHARD is a man with an obsession. That obsession is a small boat called the James Caird that briefly went into action exactly a century ago. It played a crucial role in a rescue operation that ensured the crew of Ernest Shackleton's lost ship Endurance would return to Britain without the loss of a man. Had Endurance never sunk, we almost certainly would never have heard of the James Caird and the Portsmouth-based sailor would have more time on his hands.