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    Maud, the ship that the explorer Roald Amundsen used to reach the North Pole with, returned to Norway on Monday after almost 100 years. The ship completed the circle around the North Pole and has returned to Norway. The ship stayed two days in Bergen, with its final destination beings Vollen and Asker on 18th of August.

    The ‘Maud Returns Home’ project raised the ship from Cambridge Bay, Canada, on 2016 by the Maud Returns Home project. Maud was built for Amundsen’s second expedition to the Arctic and  launched in June 1916.

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    In 1918, Amundsen left Norway, aiming to sail to the north pole, spending many years in the Arctic without reaching the North Pole. When he t

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    Maud

    Maud was built specifically for Amundsen’s expedition to drift across the Arctic Ocean. When the expedition ended, the ship was sold to the Hudson’s Bay Company and saw a few years’ use in Canadian Arctic waters. It then lay for nearly 90 years as a wreck in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, before being transported back to Norway in 2018.

    • Ship type: three-masted schooner
    • Length: 120 feet (36.5 m)
    • Breadth: 40 feet (12.3 m)
    • Draught: 16.9 feet (5.15 m)
    • Main engine: Bolinder semi-diesel, 240 hp

    Maud was built at Christian Jensen’s yard in Vollen, Asker. Jensen said that Amundsen’s reaction to seeing the first contours and sketches was to declare, “This vessel will be the best polar ship in the world.” Maud would be constructed on the same principles as the polar ship Fram, but be both shorter and broader, and considerably lighter. Jensen’s original estimate for the job was around 300,000 Kroner.

    The keel was laid in July 1916 and Maud was launched a y

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    Maud (ship)

    Ship built for Roald Amundsen for his second expedition to the Arctic

    Maud, named for Queen Maud of Norway, was a ship built for Roald Amundsen for his second expedition to the Arctic. Designed for his intended voyage through the Northeast Passage, the vessel was built in Asker, a suburb of the capital, Oslo.

    Maud was launched in June 1916[1] or 17 June 1917[2] at Vollen and ceremonially christened by upptäcktsresande crushing a chunk of ice against her bow:

    It fryst vatten not my intention to dishonor the glorious grape, but already now you shall get the taste of your real environment. For the ice you have been built, and in the ice you shall stay most of your life, and in the ice you shall solve your tasks. With the permission of our Queen, inom christen you Maud

    — Roald Amundsen[1]

    Career

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    She lived up to her christening, as she remained in the ice until 2016. Whereas other vessels used in Amundsen's polar explorations, Gjøa