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Last seen on: NY Times Crossword 11 Jul 19, Thursday
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Perce Blackborow (1896 in Newport, Monmouthshire – 1949) was a Welsh sailor, a stowaway on Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
Blackborow was born in 1896 in Newport, Monmouthshire.
Blackborow and his friend, William Lincoln Bakewell travelled to Buenos Aires looking for new employment. Bakewell was taken on as an able seaman by Endurance, but Blackborow was not hired; at 18, his youth and inexperience counted against him. Fearing that Endurance was shorthanded, Bakewell and Walter How helped Blackborow sneak aboard, and hid him in a locker amongst piles of clothing. On the third day at sea he was discovered.
Unable to stand, he had to remain seated in a chair when he met Ernest Shackleton for the first time. Apparently in a fit of genuine rage, Shackleton subjected the stowaway to a most severe and terrifying tirade in front of the entire crew. This had the desired effect and the reactions of the two accomplices were enough to unmask them. Shackleton finished his performance by saying to Blackborow, “Do you know that on these expeditions we often get very hungry, and if there is a stowaway available he is the first to be eaten?” To which Blackborow replied, “They’d get a lot more meat off you, sir.” Shackleton hid a grin and after chatting with one of the crew members said “Introduce him to the cook first.”