Word: baseship
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...cast anchor half a mile offshore. Making a raft out of heavy planking and four lifeboats, they labored all one night at the ticklish task of hoisting from the hold delicate wings and fuselages and towing them in on the raft. The Hobby, Amundsen's 1925 baseship chartered this year by Byrd, put in an appearance and was at once set to work plowing a lane through the jagged ice from the Chantier to the beach...
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