Tag: Charles Green Endurance

November 11, 1914: Grytviken: A Banquet with the whalers

November 12, 2014

–from Endurance expedition cook’s account “The Antarctic Chef: The Story of the Life of Charles Green”– “We invited some of the people of South Georgia to come aboard for a banquet. We only had tinned meat, boiled mutton, and things like that. So they promised to send us a leg of pork. Well, I got … More November 11, 1914: Grytviken: A Banquet with the whalers

October 11,1914: Charlie Green applies to be cook with “Endurance”

October 17, 2014

–from a conversation recorded with James and Margery Fisher in 1955– Green had been been cook on board the steamer Andes. “The butcher on the Andes had been ashore and when he came back he said to me, ‘Cook, they want a cook/steward on that expedition ship that is setting out for the Antarctic.’ I … More October 11,1914: Charlie Green applies to be cook with “Endurance”