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Amundsen's Ship Raised!

posted by martyb on Wednesday October 26 2016, @03:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-word-from-Bea-Arthur dept.

aristarchus writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by richtopia on Wednesday October 26 2016, @05:32PM

    by richtopia (3160) on Wednesday October 26 2016, @05:32PM (#419064) Homepage Journal

    Looking at the Wikipedia article, you can see that the ship was just off shore and not completely submerged (in the photo, perhaps it would "sink" with the tide or season). Refloated seems more appropriate.

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  • (Score: 2) by Appalbarry on Thursday October 27 2016, @03:54AM

    by Appalbarry (66) on Thursday October 27 2016, @03:54AM (#419274) Journal

    The top of the Maud was routinely pointed out to anyone visiting Cambridge Bay.

    Old news to the locals.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 27 2016, @01:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 27 2016, @01:46PM (#419402)

    Refloated seems more appropriate.

    Except in naval parlance, that is exactly what "raised" means.