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Akers

From Graces Guide
Engine for Nansen's polar exploration ship 'Fram', 1892. Photographed at Akers Mekaniske Verksted. Photo on display at Tromso Polar Museum

of Norway

Formerly Akers Mekaniske Verksted, Norway's largest shipyard, which closed in 1982.

1892 Made the 169nIHP triple expansion engines for Nansen's polar exploration ship 'Fram'.[1] [2]

Now Aker ASA.

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ [1] The Engineer, 24 March 1893, pp.246 & 252
  2. ↑ [2] Engineering, 7 July 1893
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