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Fram
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Key facts
- Name
- Fram
- Builder
- Colin Archer , Larvik , Norway
- Launched
- 26 October 1892
- Status
- Preserved; on display at the Fram Museum , Oslo
- Type
- Schooner
- Tonnage
- 402 GRT
- Length
- 127 ft 8 in (38.9 m)
- Beam
- 34 ft (10.36 m)
- Draft
- 15 ft (4.57 m)
- Propulsion
- Triple-expansion steam engine , 220 hp (164 kW) Sails
- Speed
- 7 knots (13 km/h; 8.1 mph)
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Encyclopedic overview
Fram ('Forward') is a ship that was used in expeditions of the Arctic and Antarctic regions by the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup, Oscar Wisting, and Roald Amundsen between 1893 and 1912. It was designed and built by the Scottish-Norwegian shipwright Colin Archer for Fridtjof Nansen's 1893 Arctic expedition in which the plan was to freeze Fram into the Arctic ice sheet and float with it over the North Pole.
Fram is preserved as a museum ship at the Fram Museum in Oslo, Norway.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fram” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.