who accompanied him?
His 27 companions.
Voyage of the James Caird
In October 1915, pack ice in the Weddell Sea had sunk the main expedition ship "Endurance", leaving Shackleton and his 27 companions adrift on a floe.
our small boat sailed along the rocky coast UNANSWERABLE when did james caird go on a voyage? 1914 what was the reason of this trip? To obtain rescue for the main body of the stranded Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. on what did he take this journey? In a 22.5' lifeboat.
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Voyage of the James Caird [SEP] Introduction
The voyage of the "James Caird" was a journey of from Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands through the Southern Ocean to South Georgia, undertaken by Sir Ernest Shackleton and five companions to obtain rescue for the main body of the stranded Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917. Polar historians regard the voyage of the crew in a 22.5' lifeboat through the "Furious Fifties" as one of the greatest small-boat journeys ever completed. In October 1915, pack ice in the Weddell Sea had sunk the main expedition ship "Endurance", leaving Shackleton and his 27 companions adrift on a floe. They drifted northward until April 1916, when the floe they had encamped broke up, then made their way in the ship's lifeboats to Elephant Island.