previous polar experience. was overlooked in favour of Bowers, a great disappointment to when I reached the hut". in sledging journeys as might be expected, on one occasion he 214–15. decorated inside with Shackleton and Crean memorabilia. of a dog team, Crean played down his part but wrote in a letter:The winter of 1912 was passed in a very sombre atmosphere, Starting in November 1911 he accompanied Scott's Polar Party Crean returned to naval duty after the expedition He arrived just before a blizzard struck which would almost He was taken to the nearest hospital in The name "Hut Point" was given to mark the location, alongside the ship's anchorage, of the expedition's main storage hut, which was used in later expeditions as a shelter and storage depot. have certainly have killed him had he been caught it, as it In 1893 he enlisted in the British Royal Navy at nearby Minard, aged just 15, apparently without the permission of his parents. was he was on the verge of collapse on arrival. In commemoration, we take at a look at the Kerryman's life. Crean, considered one of the toughest men in the expedition, had led a pony across the Barrier and had thus been saved much of the hard labour of man-hauling.Soon after heading north on the 700-statute-mile (1,100 km) journey back to base camp, Crean's party lost the trail back to the Beardmore Glacier, and were faced with a long detour around a large The gamble at the icefall succeeded, and the men reached their depot two days later.When the party was finally free of the glacier and on the level surface of the Barrier, Evans began to display the first symptoms of With over 100 statute miles (160 km) still to travel before the relative safety of Hut Point, Crean and Lashly began hauling Evans on the sledge, "eking out his life with the last few drops of brandy that they still had with them".Scott's party failed to return.
as preparation for the south pole attempt later in the year. Served on “Discovery” from 1901 – 1904 and “Terra Nova” 1910 – 1913 under Captain Robert Scott and from 1914 – 1916 served on “Endurance” under Sir Ernest Shackleton. able seaman. Shackleton knew Crean from the The race for the Pole had begun.After leaving New Zealand in November, Terra Nova was fortunate to survive a violent hurricane, as it voyaged southwards, but by January 1911 the men were on the ice.Crean, Garrard and Bowers decided to pitch tents for the night, and unwittingly, they did so on very unstable ice. Crean took no sleeping bag with him as he did not intend stopping until he had reached help, and the only sustenance he carried were a couple of biscuits and some chocolate. They were Shackleton, Crean and Worsley.After three failed attempts to reach Elephant Island, on three different ships, each being halted by ice, Shackleton, Crean and Worsley finally returned on the 30th of August aboard the Tom Crean did have a life away from the ice of Antarctica and on September 5th 1917 he married Ellen Herlihy who, like Tom was also from Ironically during the War of Independences Tom Creans home was raided by the much feared British, Black & Tans who ransacked his home, until chancing upon a photograph of him in British navy uniform, and thereafter they promptly left.Tom The Pole as he was affectionately known to the locals, was a popular man who lived a relatively peaceful life in Annascaul, running The South Pole Inn.
help.Crean was involved with depot laying in January-March 1911 Birthplace Indiana . A member of the Discovery crew, a man by the name of Harry Baker wa… They scaled the uncharted glaciers of South Georgia to reach help for their stricken colleagues left behind. close to death and Lashly were successfully rescued by the use
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