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    ENDURANCE DISCOVERED

    May 04, 2022 2 minutes
    WORDS Chris Whitelaw
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    Originally christened Polaris (North Star), with a large star-shaped badge on her stern, Endurance was a three-masted barquentine, 44m long, 7.6m in the beam and 348 tonnes gross weight. As well as sails, she was powered by a 260kW coal-fired steam engine capable of up to 10 knots.

    She was designed for polar conditions and built at the Framnæs shipyard in Sandefjord, Norway, with every, the vessel used by Fridtjof Nansen and later by Roald Amundsen.

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