Fram (ship) - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram_(ship)Nansen's ambition was to explore the Arcticfarther north than anyone else. To do that, he would have to deal with a problem that many sailing on the polar ocean had encountered before him: the freezing ice could crush a ship. Nansen's idea was to build a ship that could survive the pressure, not by pure strength, but because it would be of a shape designed to let the ice push the ship up, so it wo…
Fram (ship) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Fram_(ship)Fram is a three-masted schooner with a total length of 39 metres (127 ft 11 in) and width of 11 metres (36 ft 1 in). The ship is both unusually wide and unusually shallow in order to better withstand the forces of pressing ice. Nansen commissioned the shipwright Colin Archer from Larvik to construct a vessel with these characteristics.