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Voyage of the Polaris (1875), by William Bradford. The Polaris expedition of 1871–1873 was one of the first serious attempts to reach the North Pole after that of British naval officer Sir Edward Parry, who reached 82° 45′ N in 1827. Funded by the U.S. government, the expedition's notable achievement was reaching 82° 29′ N by ship, a ...
A number of ships have been named Polaris: Polaris (icebreaker), a 2016 Finnish icebreaker; Polaris (motor yacht), a 1930 motor yacht that later became the U.S. Navy patrol vessel USS Amber (PYc-6) Polaris (sailing yacht), a sailing yacht converted from HSwMS Polaris (T103), a Swedish Royal Navy torpedo boat; see List of large sailing yachts
USS Polaris, originally called the America, was an 1864 screw steamer procured by the Union Navy as USS Periwinkle during the final months of the American Civil War. She served the Union Navy's struggle against the Confederate States as a gunboat. After the war, the ship was retained by the U.S. Navy.
The ship, originally named Polaris, was built at Framnæs shipyard and launched in 1912 from Sandefjord in Norway. When one of her commissioners, the Belgian Adrien de Gerlache, went bankrupt, the remaining one sold the ship for less than the shipyard had charged – but as Lars Christensen was the owner of Polaris, there was no hardship ...
While the ship we were set to sail on, the Viking Polaris, is an expertly staffed, luxurious vessel, we would still be at the mercy of the wind and sea. My sister discovered that the ship had been ...
Polaris served in the Korean War with Service Squadron 1 and made six journeys to Korean waters between 29 January 1951 and 23 July 1954. Aldebaran-class provisions store ship set a record for her class in number of tons of provisions transferred per hour while on underway replenishment, delivering 116.10 tons per hour to the aircraft carrier USS Midway on 29 April 1955.
MS Polaris was a Russian-owned, Danish-built passenger ship in service with the Murmansk Shipping Company and based in Murmansk. It was built in 1968, and until 2000, it served as a ferry between cities in Greenland, mainly passenger transfers along the Greenland coastline.
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