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Jun 2, 2019 · The talk is a fundraising event presented by The Pembroke Dock Sunderland Trust with the Torch Theatre. In Erebus: The Story of A Ship, Palin brings to life the thrilling story of the tough little ship that took on the Antarctic and the Arctic in the 1840s - from its construction and launch from Wales' only Royal Dockyard in Pembroke Dock, 1826.
Sir Michael Edward Palin, KCMG, CBE, FRGS, FRSGS, FRSL ( / ˈpeɪlɪn / PAY-lin; born 5 May 1943 [1]) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter. He was a member of the Monty Python comedy group. [2] He received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2013 [3] and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2019.
After a sell-out event at the Torch Theatre in Milford Haven to promote his latest book ‘Erebus: The Story of a Ship’, Sir Michael Palin journeyed to the historic dockyard of Pembroke Dock (Thursday 18th July 19) to go onboard Mainstay Marine’s latest vessel build; the intuitively named ‘Erebus’. Palin’s latest novel documents the 1826 Pembroke Dock built ‘HMS Erebus’ which was ...
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Sep 16, 2018 · In 1848, HMS Erebus disappeared in the Arctic, its fate a mystery. In 2014, it was found. Michael Palin brings the remarkable ship back to life, following its epic voyages of discovery to ultimate catastrophe. He talks to Anna James.
Oct 19, 2018 · Michael Palin on the Erebus shipwreck resonates around the world: 'A dramatic, catastrophic failure is always a great story' ... They have to bring back evidence of what they find there from the ...
Mar 19, 2021 · Erebus: The Story of a Ship. Friday, March 19, 2021. Two years ago I watched most of the ‘Terror’ TV series on a long plane flight back from Sydney to London. I was gripped for many hours, but never got to the last episode as my breakfast arrived. Having spent so much time writing about Sir John Franklin’s disastrous voyage aboard HMS ...
Sep 27, 2018 · Nature frustrates Palin too, in the end: his pilgrimage to the wreck of the Erebus below King William Island, on board a modern Russian ice-breaker, is foiled by present-day climate change. Warming seas have caused Arctic ice shelves to break up, causing massive ice floes that ironically echo the conditions Franklin found himself in, now frozen ...
