Harry McNish
✓ Source-basedstableScottish carpenter and participant in Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition
Henry McNish, often referred to as Harry McNish or by the nickname Chippy, was the carpenter on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-1917.
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The crew have their hair cut aboard Endurance. McNish is on the left shaving Greenstreet's head.
Endurance trapped in pack ice. McNish's work prevented it flooding, but he could do nothing to stop it being crushed.
McNish's cat, Mrs Chippy, had to be killed after the ship was destroyed.
McNish's grave in Karori Cemetery with the statue of Mrs Chippy which was added by the New Zealand Antarctic Society. His last name is here spelled "McNeish".Historical Figures from United Kingdom 6
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Henry McNish, often referred to as Harry McNish or by the nickname Chippy, was the carpenter on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-1917. He was responsible for much of the work that ensured the crew's survival after their ship, the Endurance, was destroyed when it became trapped in pack ice in the Weddell Sea. He modified the small boat, James Caird, that allowed Shackleton and five men to make a voyage of 800 hundred miles across the perilous Southern Ocean to fetch help for the rest of the crew.
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