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Departure of Peary and the Roosevelt from New York 1905

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Departure of Peary and the Roosevelt from New York 1905

long, 35 and a half feet wide, with a hull over two and a half feet thick. Fully loaded the ship weighed 1500 tons while drawing only 16.2 feet. In addition to sail power, the ship was driven by a 1000 horsepower steam engine, which could produce short bursts of even greater power to get the ship through thick ice. The ''Roosevelt'' served Peary on this expedition as well as the following one in 1908-1909. Sold numerous times to a variety of commercial concerns, the ''Roosevelt'' was ...