- Ole Aanderud Larsen
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Ole Aanderud Larsen (December 18, 1884 - October 6, 1964) was a ship designer and businessman from Norway.
He was born in Tønsberg, and died in Sandefjord, in the county of Vestfold.
Larsen is best known for designing the Endurance, the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed for the Antarctic on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914. He was the first chairman and one of the founders of Jotun Group Private Ltd., a company started in Sandefjord to sell specialized paints and coatings to the shipping industry that has expanded worldwide and now sells a diverse range of paints and coatings for all kind of industries.
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition People Weddell Sea partyWilliam Bakewell · Perce Blackborow · Alfred Cheetham · Robert Clark · Tom Crean · Daniel Gooch · Charles Green · Lionel Greenstreet · Ernest Holness · Walter How · Huberht Hudson · Frank Hurley · Leonard Hussey · Reginald James · Alexander Kerr · Alexander Macklin · George Marston · Timothy McCarthy · James McIlroy · Thomas McLeod · Harry McNish · Thomas Orde-Lees · Lewis Rickinson · Ernest Shackleton · William Stephenson · John Vincent · Frank Wild · James Wordie · Frank WorsleyRoss Sea partyAboard the Aurora: Sydney Atkin · Emile d'Anglade · C. Adrian Donnelly · Arthur Downing · Charles Glidden · S. Grady · Lionel Hooke · William Kavanagh · Alfred Larkman · Clarence Maugher · William Mugridge · Aubrey Ninnis · James Paton · Harold Shaw · Joseph Stenhouse · Leslie Thompson · A. "Shorty" Warren · Edward Wise
Shore party: John Cope · Irvine Gaze · Victor Hayward · Andrew Jack · Ernest Joyce · Aeneas Mackintosh · Richard W. Richards · Arnold Spencer-Smith · Alexander Stevens · Ernest WildOtherPlaces and vessels SY Aurora · Caird Coast · Cave Cove · Elephant Island · Endurance · Fortuna Glacier · King Haakon Bay · McDonald Ice Rumples · Mount Worsley · Peggotty Bluff · Stromness, South Georgia · Stromness BayEvents and parties Other Mrs. Chippy · The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (2000) · Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure (2001) · Shackleton (2002)
Categories:- Norwegian engineers
- 1884 births
- 1964 deaths
- Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
- People from Tønsberg
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