Stowaway On Endurance
The friends traveled to Buenos Aires looking for new employment. Bakewell was taken on as an Able Seaman by Endurance. Blackborow however was not hired, his youth (he was 18) and inexperience counting against him. Fearing that Endurance was shorthanded, William Bakewell and Walter How helped Blackborow to sneak aboard and hid him in a locker. On the third day at sea he was discovered.
Unable to stand, he had to remain seated in a chair when he met Ernest Shackleton for the first time.
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