This schooner, three-masted was built in 1892 by Archer, Colin in Larvik.
This vessel had a complement of 16. Under command of Fridtjof Nansen this vesse attempted to reach the North Pole 1893-95 by drifting across the Arctic Basin in his ship the Fram starting in the Laptev Sea.
In 1892 she was owned by Norwegian interests.
Fridtjof Nansen (1893-95)
Stonehouse, Bernard. (1990)
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