Luis Pardo
Chilean naval officer (1882-1935) · Chile · On the map · Died at 52
Luis Alberto Pardo Villalón was a Chilean Navy officer who, in August 1916, commanded the steam tug Yelcho to rescue the 22 stranded crewmen of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, Endurance, part of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
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The crewmen were stranded on Elephant Island, an ice-covered mountainous island off the coast of Antarctica in the outer reaches of the South Shetland Islands, in the Southern Ocean.
Country
Chile
Type
Other
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1882 to 1935 · aged 52