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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: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday October 27 2016, @05:21AM
Perhaps you refer to Roland the Thompson Gunner, another famous Norwegian, but only by way of Warren Zevon. All modern advances are either Norwegian (preferable), or Swedish (acceptable) like the Nobel prize named after a great Swede. And surely you have heard of Quisling, and the Heavy Water plants in Tennessee? Tritium? OMG, I have crossed the streams! With Norwegians! Curse a' you, Banzai!
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday October 27 2016, @08:15PM
I've always been of the opinion that Van Owen was the better man.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday October 27 2016, @09:12PM
Never trust Frisians bearing Thompsons.