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

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, Interesting) by deadstick on Thursday October 27 2016, @02:03AM

    by deadstick (5110) on Thursday October 27 2016, @02:03AM (#419244)

    that's where sailors would poop over the side

    I'm gonna disagree with that: poop is from a french word that has nothing to do with poo. Nobody pooped from the poop deck but the senior officers, whose cabins were below it and overhung the water below the stern. The crew toilet was typically a two-holer flanking the bowsprit at the front end (hence head) of the ship.

    Square-rigged vessels sailed before the wind as much as possible, so the crew were quartered in the bow and the officers in the stern where they usually didn't have to smell the crew quarters. "Sailing before the mast" meant being an enlisted sailor.

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