£650
FRANK WORSLEY'S LOG BOOK FROM THE S.S. ANNA V, 1933
Chief Officer's Log Book kept between 11 April-16 September 1933, 41 leaves, between Copenhagen and the Gulf of Bothnia and back via the Gulf of Finland to Kiel via Dantzig each page signed F.A. Worsley (Master), crew list to front, bound in blue card with label to front -- 14½ x 12½in. (36.6 x 31.2cm.); together with an associated passage planning chart of the Baltic Sea, circa 1966, with red-inked voyage lines for the Anna V
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Frank Worsley (1872-1943) was Captain of the Endurance in 1914 with Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Expedition where, as a navigator along with Shackleton and four others, he sailed the lifeboat James Caird some 800 miles across the South Atlantic Ocean where his navigational skills were crucial to the safe arrival of the lifeboat.
Original printed boards, lower fore-corner worn away.
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