AMUNDSEN’S OLD SHIP
NEWS OF THE MAUD LONG DRIFT OSLO, Nov. 21. 'News has been received in Oslo that Captain Roald Amundsen's old polarship, the Maud, after having been left by its crew long ago, has drifted from Victoria Land, north of Canada, to a place about seven miles from Wainwright, Alaska, and is now frozen in the ice. The Polar explorer, Captain Wisting, says that the Maud may eventually conie out between Spitzbergen and Greenland, but that she may take two, or perhaps three, years to do it. When The Maud returned from its long voyage in the Arctic in 1925 it was sold to the Hudson Bay Company anti employed as a fur carrier along tho North-West Passage until, a few years ago, it stranded in Cambridge Bay and was left there by the crew. It has been repeatedly suggested that tho ship ought to be re-purchased by Norway, but sufficient capital has never been forthcoming. The Hudson Bay Company paid £BOOO for her. It would cost at least £20,000 to build as strong an ice-ship to-day.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18287, 4 January 1934, Page 5
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179AMUNDSEN’S OLD SHIP Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18287, 4 January 1934, Page 5
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