Sir Ernest Shackleton
Born Kilkee, county Clare, Ireland. He led several Antarctic expeditions and located the South magnetic pole during his voyage of 1907-1909. Died of a heart attach on a voyage to the South Atlantic...
3 memorials
William Shanks
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
David Sims
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
Robert Sinclair
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
William Sinclair
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
Captain John Smith
Citizen and cordwainer (cobbler), first among the leaders of the settlement at Jamestown, Virginia from which began the overseas expansion of the English speaking peoples. Born Lancashire. 16 year...
2 memorials
Luke Smith
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
William Smith
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
John Hanning Speke
Explorer. Born Devon. The first European, while on an expedition with Richard Burton to East Africa in 1858, to discover Lake Victoria. On a subsequent journey with James Grant in 1862, he confirme...
1 memorial
Sir Henry Morton Stanley
Explorer and journalist, born as John Rowlands at Denbigh, Wales. Illegitimate and brought up in a workhouse, he sailed to America as a cabin boy in 1859. He befriended a trader called Henry Hope S...
Person, Exploring, Journalism / Publishing, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, Africa, USA, Wales
1 memorial
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