Personnel Of The Shackleton–Rowett Expedition
The Shackleton–Rowett Expedition, 1921–22, was the last Antarctic expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton. Proposed as an ambitious two-year programme of Antarctic exploration it was curtailed by the death of Shackleton and the inadequacies of the expedition's ship, ''Quest (ship), Quest''. Under the command of Frank Wild several attempts were made to break through the Antarctic pack ice, but the expedition was never able to proceed further than longitude 20°E. On the crew's return to Cape Town to refit in preparation for the second term they were ordered home. The crew of the ''Quest'' comprised 24 members in all, but only 19 were on board for the start of the Antarctic portion (Hussey accompanied Shackleton's body when it was put on board a ship for England, and Eriksen, Mooney and Bee-Mason had left before the ship reached South Georgia Island, South Georgia). Gerald Lysaght, a yachtsman, accompanied the crew from Plymouth to Cape Verde. Notes References

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Crew Of The Quest
A crew is a body or a class of people who work at a common activity, generally in a structured or hierarchy, hierarchical organization. A location in which a crew works is called a crewyard or a workyard. The word has nautical resonances: the tasks involved in operating a ship, particularly a sailing ship, providing numerous specialities within a ship's crew, often organised with a chain of command. Traditional nautical usage strongly distinguishes Commissioned officer, officers from crew, though the two groups combined form the ship's company. Members of a crew are often referred to by the title ''Crewman, crewman'' or ''crew-member''. ''Crew'' also refers to the sport of rowing (sport), rowing, where teams row competitively in racing shells. See also *For a specific sporting usage, see rowing crew. *For filmmaking usage, see film crew. *For live music usage, see road crew. *For analogous entities in research on human judgment and decision-making, see team and judge–advisor sy ...
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