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this time at lloyds insurers in the city of london. whenever a large ship is lost to the sea it is recorded in pen and ink in a loss book. it's a tradition that still happens today but it goes back to 1774 and the hope was that they would find the shackleton ship on the day she sank. we have come to where the archives are stored. there are 140 loss books going back hundreds of years. shackleton's endurance sank in november 1915, so you would expect the record to be in this loss book here for 1915. but the news of the sinking in antarctica took a while to reach london and in fact the record has been discovered in this book here, june 1916. and a century after it was written, the book is being opened again.