Leif Erikson

S.O.S. Inc. P.O. Box 411
Duluth MN 55801 The 42 foot vessel was completed in April of 1926. Johns, Newfoundland on July 20, 1926.

The Leif Erikson Ship was built in Korgen, Norway by local boat builders to replicate the type of ship sailed and the route used by the Vikings in their settlement of North America around 997 A.D. Captain Gerhard Folgero and his crew of three left Bergen, Norway for North America on May 23rd of that same year. On the voyage to Duluth, the ship stopped at the Shetland Islands, Faroe Islands, Icelan  ...