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They have raised the Maud!
Arctic explorer Roald Amundsen's ship, the Maud, has been raised from where it sunk in 1930, off of Victoria Island, Canada. Plans are being made to return the wreck to Norway.
Article in Live Science here.
Along with the Fram, these ships were the extreme science platforms of their time. They were built of wooden hulls that could withstand being frozen into the Arctic ice cap, and traveling with it. Amundsen sailed the Maud through the Northeast Passage.
From 1918 to 1920, Amundsen and his crew sailed from Oslo, Norway, along the Russian Arctic coast to Nome, Alaska, traversing a Northeast Passage. Amundsen eventually abandoned the plan to go to the North Pole. Maud spent a total of seven years exploring the Arctic before the ship was seized by Amundsen's creditors and was sold to Canada's Hudson's Bay Co., according to Norway's Fram Museum.
Nice to see the old girl up and about again. They certainly don't make them like that anymore. Now they make Boaty McBoatfaces.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 26 2016, @05:12PM
I knew a Maud in college, an unusual/archaic name in the mid-70s -- she started out pretty mouse-y and hung out with a quiet genius. Later she hooked up with an anesthesiologist and started to bloom, last time I saw her at a reunion (still with the doctor) a lot of old guys were drooling.
I wonder if the ship Maud will look that good after all those years underwater.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 26 2016, @08:07PM
Did she look like Bea Arthur, because that is the only image I can conjure up for a Maud.