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‘Bluenose’ was a legendary Canadian schooner from Nova Scotia, a celebrated racing ship and a symbol of the province. (The word "bluenose" is slang for Nova Scotian.) ‘Bluenose’ was launched at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia on March 26, 1921, as both a working cod-fishing schooner and a racing ship. This was in response to a Nova Scotian ship's defeat in a race for working schooners established by the Halifax Herald newspaper in 1920. |
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Fram was a ship used in expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctic regions by Norwegian explorers 1893–1912. Fram was probably the strongest wooden ship ever built; it was built by the British shipwright Colin Archer for Fridtjof Nansen's 1893 expedition where Nansen planned to let Fram freeze into the Arctic ice sheet and float through the ice sheet, via the North Pole. Fram is said to be the ship to have sailed furthest north and furthest south. Fram is currently preserved in whole at the Fram Museum in Oslo, Norway. |
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HM Bark ‘Endeavour’ was originally a small merchant collier named ‘Earl of Pembroke’, built in Whitby, North Yorkshire. She was purchased by the Royal Society of London for use in a scientific study to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the sun, and renamed ‘Endeavour’ after a major refit at Deptford on the Thames in 1768, which converted her from a collier into a barque. Her commander was James Cook. |
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