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Mar 9 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Endurance has been found.

Discovered at 3000 metres on 5 March 2022

100 years to the day since Shackleton was buried

#Endurance22
After weeks of searching Endurance was found within the search box conceived by Mensun Bound, only just over four miles south of the location at which its captain Frank Worsley calculated it had sunk. The entire team aboard #Endurance22 are happy and a little exhausted!
Here's how it happened.
A huge success for the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, Captain Knowledge Bengu and the crew of Agulhas II, and the expedition organised by John Shears.

It has been the greatest experience of my career.
Glad @elonmusk approves!
Nothing was touched on the wreck. Nothing retrieved. It was surveyed using the latest tools and its position confirmed. It is protected by the Antarctic Treaty. Nor did we wish to tamper with it.
What's next?
@Historyhit is not stopping here:
historyhit.com/undiscovered-s…

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Today on the podcast:

A Bomber Command recording which we believe to be unique. Steve Stevens DFC made an audio recording of a raid over Essen in 1943. 75 yrs later I listened to it with him for the podcast.

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Jun 9, 2021
In which I get triggered for being called unpatriotic:
Here are some things that I consider unpatriotic; showing a lack of regard for this nation's people, traditions and law.

First: illegally shutting down Parliament, and in the process lying to or, at best, not being totally open with the Queen.
Giving a seat in our legislature to someone who donates money to keep you in power.

If that was in Africa we would issuing high minded ethics lectures.
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Today in 793 Vikings raided Lindisfarne:
"Never before has such terror appeared...as we have now suffered from a pagan race...The church of St Cuthbert is spattered with the blood of the priests of God, stripped of all its furnishing, exposed to the plundering of pagans."
Alcuin
Nothing survives from the time of the raid, this carving known as the Domesday Stone, was part of the rebuild and depicts the End of Days with a horde of men wielding Viking weapons...
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I'm on a VIKING ROAD TRIP!
The legend @CatJarman is guiding me across England on the trail of the Great Heathen Army from East Anglia where they martyred King Edmund to the edge of Salisbury Plain where Alfred won his greatest victory.
Very excited to be back in one of the most remarkable and important Anglo-Saxon/Viking sites in the country. St Wystan's church in Repton was a royal & religious centre of the kingdom of Mercia. The 8thC crypt was the final resting place of several Mercian kings.
The monastery was looted & smashed by the Great Heathen Army in 873. Only the crypt survives. The Vikings buried their own outside the church including the famous 'Repton Viking' who was hacked to pieces but buried with a Thor's Hammer around his neck, a sword by his side....
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