Interestingly, googling "Shackleton insurance" gives this New York Times article from January 16, 1914: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A07E6DC

Interestingly, googling "Shackleton insurance" gives this New York Times article from January 16, 1914: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A07E6DC1730E733A25755C1A9679C946596D6CF http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A07E6DC1730E... It's not clear to me from the article who actually took out the insurance policy, though.