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2 unusual facts about James Caird


James Caird

Sir James Caird, 1st Baronet (1864–1954), founder of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

Sir James Key Caird (1837–1916), jute baron and philanthropist, sponsored Ernest Shackleton's Endurance Expedition


Caird baronets

The Caird Baronetcy, of Glenfarquhar in the County of Kincardine, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 26 January 1928 for the Scottish shipowner James Caird.

Peggotty Bluff

In 1916, Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition party from Elephant Island established a camp, using the upturned James Caird near the head of King Haakon Bay which they called Peggotty Camp, after the family in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield who lived in a home made from a beached boat.


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