Length - 127 feet, 9 inches
Beam - 34 feet
Displacement: 402 tons
Engine: Single shaft, triple expansion engine generating 220 horsepower
(the
vessel carried sails, so the engine was an auxilairy power source)
Amundsen used her in 1911 in his Antarctic expedition.
||| Historic
Images of the Fram |||
sources: Bain J. Arthur, Life
and Explorations of Fridtjof Nansen, London: Walter Scott, Ltd., Paternoster
Square, 1897, p 149
Jackson, Robert, Liners, Tankers and Merchant Ships
(New York: Barnes & Noble, 2002) 162.)
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