International Maritime Museum Hamburg
Historic quay warehouse holding a replica lifeboat that retraced a famous polar rescue voyage.
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This guide to the International Maritime Museum Hamburg follows two voyages in one small wooden boat: Ernest Shackleton's desperate 1916 crossing of the Southern Ocean to fetch help for his stranded crew, and the deliberate re-creation of that same route by polar explorer Arved Fuchs and his crew in 2000. It traces the storms, ice and open-ocean gales both voyages faced in a boat barely twenty-two feet long. You'll learn how the replica, named James Caird the second, ended up craned into this museum after its own journey ended. Look closely at its timbers before you move on to the ten decks of ship models above.
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