The Death of Endurance
Endurance.
Endurance was Ernest Shackletons ship. She was trapped by ice in the Weddell Sea and the crew watched as she was slowly crushed. Year 2 tried to imagine what it would have been like to watch the ship slowly destroyed.
There was a ship named Endurance. Once she was a beautiful ship but now she’s desolate and ruined. She is crushed and trapped in ice. Sadly she is dying and as time goes on she begins to sink and sink more. Inside the boat are the things that we needed but the floor is covered in freezing water and flooded..
By Fatimah
The freezing cold ship was trapped in the ice and she was frozen. After a while the ship was tipping and exhausted. There was a flashing light- it was a sign she was saying she was still alive but I knew that she was going to sink. Inside Endurance it was flooding and frozen. Endurance was lonely and heartbroken.
By Lucy
The solid ice crushed against the beatifull ship.The hard rigid ice creeked slowly against poor Endurance.The light kept on flashing like a heartbeat. Mainly the ship was full of freezing cold water. The beatifull ship was sinking slowly into the cold ice.F rantically the light was shining bright but it was sinking .We could hear her creeking.It was like Endurance jumped on the ice and made herself die beacause she was ready to die. The ice was slippy so she kept on moving.She kept on flooding.The sails were breaking slowly.
By Sabaa
Once, she was a beautiful ship, but now she’s a ruined ship. The ship was dying, the ice-berg was crushing her. She was frozen everywhere. The ship was creaking, she cried out for help. She started to rattle, she was tangled up. When she started to sink, the light came off. That meant that she was dying. It was as if Endurance was crying. It was a sad ending.
Chloe
June 25th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Once it was a beautifull ship but now it is a desolate and it was sincing
with dajrs.
June 29th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Hello, Year 2, what a great blog – I work at the Polar Museum at the Scott Polar Research Institute. You might already know this, but we have the last surviving piece of HMS Endurance. It is hidden away here inside the Institute.
The Endurance’s spar was used to build a look-out platform on Elephant Island as Shackleton’s men waited to be rescued. After the rescue it was found and taken to St. John’s College, Cambridge where it rested for many years before it was brought here.
Your writing is brilliant – I love the way you’ve imagined how the ship might have felt. I wonder how the Endurance feels now, watching us have our afternoon tea.
July 7th, 2010 at 11:31 am
Well done Lucy,Fatimah and sabaa for your big write.It almost made me cry.
July 12th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
that is a lot of facts
July 14th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Brilliant writing all of you – just read it my class, they said:
“It was tremendous”
“I liked the story because it was a sad story”
“It was exciting but sad because at the end the light went off and the ship sank!”
July 14th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Hi Year 2
Thank you for sharing your excellent writing, very atmospheric, it was like being there.