{"id":289,"date":"2011-09-03T22:19:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T03:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bacliffexplorationsociety.org\/blog\/?p=289"},"modified":"2011-09-03T22:19:27","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T03:19:27","slug":"the-bacliff-exploration-society-salutes-epic-open-boat-journeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bacliffexplorationsociety.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/03\/the-bacliff-exploration-society-salutes-epic-open-boat-journeys\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bacliff Exploration Society Salutes Epic Open-Boat Journeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_290\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-290\" style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bacliffexplorationsociety.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/03\/the-bacliff-exploration-society-salutes-epic-open-boat-journeys\/800px-launchingthejamescaird2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-290\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-290 \" title=\"800px-LaunchingTheJamesCaird2\" src=\"http:\/\/bacliffexplorationsociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/800px-LaunchingTheJamesCaird2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Launching the James Caird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Bacliff Exploration Society salutes Antarctic explorer\u00a0<a title=\"Ernest Shackleton\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ernest_Shackleton\">Ernest Shackleton<\/a> and Royal Navy Captain <a title=\"William Bligh\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Bligh\">William Bligh<\/a>, commanders of two of the most epic open-boat journeys in naval history.<\/p>\n<p>In 1789, after the crew of the\u00a0<em>HMS Bounty<\/em>\u00a0mutinied, Bligh and 18 crew members navigated a 23 ft open boat on a 47-day,\u00a03,618 nautical mile, voyage from\u00a0Tofua to Timor in the Dutch East Indies. \u00a0In 1916, after the loss of his ship the <em>HMS Endurance<\/em>, Shackleton and a crew of five launched\u00a0a 22-foot lifeboat (the <em>James Caird<\/em>) from Elephant Island, and sailed 800 miles on the open sea to South Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>See also:\u00a0<a title=\"Leadership Lessons from Ernest Shackleton\" href=\"http:\/\/artofmanliness.com\/2011\/08\/02\/leadership-lessons-from-ernest-shackleton\/\">Leadership Lessons from Ernest Shackleton<\/a> (The Art of Manliness),\u00a0<a title=\"The Voyage of Bounty\u2019s Launch\" href=\"http:\/\/library.puc.edu\/pitcairn\/bounty\/launch.shtml\">The Voyage of Bounty\u2019s Launch<\/a> (Mutiny and Romance in the South Seas: A Companion to the Bounty Adventure by Sven Wahlroos),\u00a0<a title=\"HMS Sharktypus\" href=\"http:\/\/bacliffexplorationsociety.org\/wiki\/index.php?title=HMS_Sharktypus\">HMS Sharktypus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bacliff Exploration Society salutes Antarctic explorer\u00a0Ernest Shackleton and Royal Navy Captain William Bligh, commanders of two of the most epic open-boat journeys in naval history. In 1789, after the crew of the\u00a0HMS Bounty\u00a0mutinied, Bligh and 18 crew members navigated a 23 ft open boat on a 47-day,\u00a03,618 nautical mile, voyage from\u00a0Tofua to Timor in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bacliffexplorationsociety.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/03\/the-bacliff-exploration-society-salutes-epic-open-boat-journeys\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Bacliff Exploration Society Salutes Epic Open-Boat Journeys&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-land","category-sea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bacliffexplorationsociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bacliffexplorationsociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bacliffexplorationsociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bacliffexplorationsociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bacliffexplorationsociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"http:\/\/bacliffexplorationsociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"http:\/\/bacliffexplorationsociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bacliffexplorationsociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bacliffexplorationsociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bacliffexplorationsociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}