Vessel names
Fram
Fram is a Norse vessel name. meaning “ahead”.
Robust wooden boat used by Roald Amundsen and other explorers (Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup and Oscar Wisting) in their Arctic and Antarctic explorations.
Frost
Frost is an English vessel name.
Ideal name for polar research ship.
Lifeline
Lifeline is an English vessel name.
Humanitarian ship chartered by the German NGO Lifeline to rescue migrants adrift in the Mediterranean.
Maud
Maud is a Norse vessel name.
Ship built by Roald Amundsen for his second expedition to the Arctic.
Name in honor of Queen Consort Maud of Norway.
Maud is a Medieval form of Matilda.
Odón de Buen
Odón de Buen is a Spanish vessel name.
Oceanographic vessel built in 1973. Originally called “El Pescador” (the fisherman) and owned by the Federation of Fishermen’s Guilds of the Balearic Islands.
Later, in 1979 it was acquired by the Spanish Institute of Oceanography and renamed Odón de Buen, the name of its founder.
Odón de Buen y del Cos was a Spanish naturalist who stood out as the founder of Spanish oceanography.
Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsenm is a Norse vessel name.
Norwegian explorer of the polar regions. He led the expedition to Antarctica, which for the first time reached the South Pole.
Sarsia
Sarsia is an English vessel name.
It is named after a genus of hydrozoans in the family Corynidae.
Former oceanographic vessel used by the UK Marine Biological Association.
Sea Eye 4
Sea Eye 4 is an English vessel name.
Humanitarian ship chartered by the German NGO Sea Eye to rescue migrants adrift in the Mediterranean.