Frank Wild
Alexander Macklin, surgeon on Endurance, meticulously kept an expedition journal that went down with the ship. The day after the crew abandoned Endurance, he started a new journal. This passage, written on October 28, 1915, is interesting for the insight Macklin gives us into the character of Endurance's second-in-command Frank Wild.
"... I was called off to the ship by Wild, but had scarcely got there when the place selected for the camp started breaking up, and we had hurriedly to harness up and move to a floe further forward on the starboard side. I returned with Wild to the ship to get up some timber from the fore-hold. The stern made by Chippy had carried away, the uprights were bent, and the cross beams going. We managed to get down however. The noise inside the hull was terrific, the timbers as they resolved banging away in a most upleasant manner. The planks which Wild wanted were in the side pockets, black dark, and to enter there it was necessary to clamber through a small opening in a bulging bulkhead. I hated the thought of going in but Wild entered without hesitation, telling me to wait outside while he passed out the planks. I was glad when the job, which took some time, was over and we could get on deck and off the ship, for I do not think I have ever had such a horrible sickening sensation of fear as I had whilst in the hold of that breaking ship. ..."