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Fram

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Norwegian polar exploration vessel

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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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Official name
Fram
Image
Amundsen-Fram.jpg
Length
39.0
Speed
7
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nominal power output
220
Commons category
Fram (ship, 1892)
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Fram
native label
Fram
draft
4.75
service entry
1891-00-00
beam
11.0
inception
1892-01-01
date of official opening
1892-00-00
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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.

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