High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! S/S Vega, a Swedish steamship famous for the expedition of the Finnish-Swedish explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiold. It was the first ship to circumnavigate Eurasia and sail through the Northeast passage. She was a barque built in Bremerhaven 1872 and had a wooden hull measuring 150ft in length and 357 tons DWT. She had a 70 hp auxiliary steam engine. The Vega was originally built for whaling and seal hunting, and after the expedition she returned to her original trade. Vega was reported sunk in Melville Bay west of Greenland in 1903, sailing under the Scottish owner Ferguson.

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