Ice captain : the life of J.R. Stenhouse /Stephen Haddelsey.

Scottish born Joseph Russell Stenhouse (1887-1941), commanded the Aurora, the second ship taking part in Shackleton's Endurance expedition to Antarctica (1914-1917). Torn from her moorings in a storm, the Aurora was driven out to sea where she became trapped in pack ice for ten months before escaping and continuing her journey with a broken rudder. Returning to England, Stenhouse was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for sinking a submarine in the First World War and then after the war, the Distinguished Service Order for his part in the campaign against Bolshevism in Murmansk and Archangel. He later returned to the Antarctic as master of the Discovery during the National Oceanographic Expedition (1925-1927). He died in 1941, reported missing when his ship exploded and sank in the Red Sea.