William Colbeck (seaman)

William Colbeck (1871–1930) was a British seaman who distinguished himself on two Antarctic expeditions. Educated at Hull Grammar School, Colbeck served served a merchant navy apprenticeship between 1886 and 1890, earning his second mate's certificate in 1890, first mate's certificate in 1892, master's in 1894 and extra master's in 1897. He was awarded a Royal Navy reserve commission in 1898. In that year he was invited by the Norwegian Carsten Borchgrevink to join an expedition to the Antarctic in the "Southern Cross". This would be the first expedition to overwinter on the Antarctic mainland; Colbeck took charge of the expedition's magnetic observation work. [cite web|author = Borchgrevink, Carstens|title= "First on the Antarctic Continent|url= http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aMRgMxzhEI8C&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24&dq=Southern+Cross+Expedition&source=web&ots=VRxj1EM4Dl&sig=OxChuy-HeNPhHXJA0kMm3n26jio&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result#PPP1,M1|publisher = George Newnes Ltd|date= 1901|accessdate= 2008-08-11]

After returning to England in 1900, Colbeck was soon going southward again, this time in command of the relief ship "Morning", sent in early 1903 to resupply Captain Scott's "Discovery", then trapped in the ice at McMurdo Sound in the Antarctic. [Crane, pp. 232–40] In January 1904 Colbeck returned with "Morning", this time with firm instructions that unless "Discovery" could be speedily released from the ice, she was to be abandoned; Colbeck was to bring Scott and the expedition home. In a race against time, and with a fortunate shift in ice conditions, "Discovery" was freed and sailed safely home. [Crane, pp. 277–87]

Thereafter Colbeck made no further Antarctic ventures, but his work there is commemorated by Cape Colbeck on the King Edward VII peninsula, at coord|77|07|S|158|01|W.

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