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| History | |
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 Norway | |
| Name | Maud |
| Namesake | Queen Maud of Norway |
| Owner | Roald Amundsen |
| Builder | Built inAsker,Norway |
| Launched | June 1916[1] or 17 June 1917[2] |
 Canada | |
| Owner | Hudson's Bay Company |
| Acquired | 1925 |
| Renamed | Baymaud |
| Norway | |
| Owner | Asker, Norway |
| Acquired | 1990 |
| Renamed | Maud |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Oak hulled sailing ship, built for Arctic exploration |
| Tonnage | 292 register |
| Length | 36.5 m (119.75 ft) |
| Beam | 12.3 m (40.35 ft) |
| Depth of hold | 4.85 m (16 ft) |
| Propulsion | 240 hp (177 kW) semidieselBolinder engine |
Maud, named forQueen Maud of Norway, was a ship built forRoald Amundsen for his second expedition to theArctic. Designed for his intended voyage through theNortheast Passage, the vessel was built inAsker, a suburb of the capital,Oslo.
Maud was launched in June 1916[1] or 17 June 1917[2] atVollen andceremonially christened by Amundsen crushing a chunk of ice against her bow:
It is not my intention to dishonor the glorious grape, but already now you shall get the taste of your real environment. For the ice you have been built, and in the ice you shall stay most of your life, and in the ice you shall solve your tasks. With the permission of our Queen, I christen you Maud
— Roald Amundsen[1]
She lived up to her christening, as she remained in the ice until 2016. Whereas other vessels used in Amundsen's polar explorations,Gjøa andFram, have been preserved at theNorwegian Maritime Museum,Maud had a more rugged fate. After sailing through theNortheast Passage, which did not go as planned and took six years between 1918 and 1924, she ended up inNome, Alaska and in August 1925 was sold on behalf of Amundsen's creditors inSeattle, Washington.
The buyer was theHudson's Bay Company, which renamed herBaymaud. She was to be used as a supply vessel for Company outposts inCanada's western Arctic. Prior to her final voyageBaymaud was given a refit inVancouver,British Columbia. (The work was supervised by Tom Halliday, who later designed the RCMP vesselSt. Roch, based onMaud.) In the winter of 1926 she was frozen into the ice atCambridge Bay, where she sank in 1930. The wreck lay just offshore, across the inlet from the community's former Hudson's Bay Company store. Nearby is the site of the formerCambridge Bay LORAN Tower, built in 1947.
In 1990 the ship was sold by the Hudson's Bay Company to Asker with the expectation that she would be returned to the town. Although a Cultural Properties Export permit was issued, the price tag to repair and move the ship was 230 millionkroner ($43,200,000) and the permit expired.[3][4][5]
In 2011 an Asker-based company, Tandberg Eiendom AS, in the project Maud Returns Home[6] announced a plan to returnMaud to Norway. They intend to build a museum inVollen to house her, near where she was built and had purchased a barge to move her. Concern about the plan came from the community of Cambridge Bay,Parks Canada, theGovernment of Nunavut, the International Polar Heritage Committee, and some people in her intended destination.[7] Initial refusal of a new export permit from the federal government, on the grounds of a lack of a full archeological study was later reversed on appeal in March 2012.[8][6][9] The salvage operation was under way in the summer of 2015, with a plan to return the hull to Norway in the summer of 2016.[10]
On 31 July 2016 it was reported that the hull ofMaud had been raised to the surface and placed on a barge in preparation for shipment to Norway.[11] In August 2017Maud began the journey back to Norway; she was towed through theNorthwest Passage. In September 2017 she arrived in Greenland to stay for the winter.[12][13]Maud arrived in Bergen on 6 August 2018, finally returning to Norway nearly a century after her departure with Amundsen. She was then towed along the Norwegian coast, and arrived at Vollen on 18 August.[14]
![Pennant flown from the mast of the ship during her original tenure. It was also later flown from the hull of the wreck during the barge journey back to Norway.[15]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=https%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aFlag_of_the_Maud.svg)
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