NANSEN'S SHIP FRAM

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 74, 28 March 1930, Page 11

NANSEN'S SHIP FRAM

LAST BOW TO THE WORLD (From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 4th February. The venerable Fram, the ship that took Professor Nansen farthest north and Captain Roald Amundsen farthest south, is now being equipped for her last voyage. The ship is to be ono of the features at the exhibition arranged at Trondhjem this summer on tho occasion of tho nine hundredth anniversary or' the introduction of Christianity to Norway. The Pram's crew on her last voyage (writes the Oslo correspondent of "The Observer") will bo the most illustrious that ever tramped the deck, of a ship. Her chief is to bo Captain Wasting, the only man' now living who has stood at tho South Polo and seen the North Pole from the air. Her other "hands" are to be old Polar explorers from Nansen's, Amundsen's, and Svordrup's expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. After tho exhibition tho Frain will sail to Oslo, where she will lie for ever in tho Norwegian Arctic Museum. During the preparations going on to make her fit for the voyage, one of the most difficult problems was to get three masts 100 feet high, as tho ship oiico had. Captain Otto Sverdrup finally got three masts from the Pacific. How solid the ship was may be gathered from the following details: Ceilings, walls, and floors of all the cabins, which arc under deck, had alternate layers of wainscot of white fir, next an airtight room, then felt layers, wainscot o): white fir again, linoleum, padding of reindeer hair, once move wainscot of white fir, a new layer of linoleum^ a now airproof room, and, finally, wainscot of white fir,- __.:..' .