“Underway on Nuclear Power” – also a story about Flying Enterprise and Captain Carlsen
Fifty-nine years ago today, USS NAUTILUS (SSN-571) became the first submarine to get “underway on nuclear power.” Submarine Force Museum...
Read MoreThe drama about Flying Enterprise now in a Danish edition for blind people
Hele bogen om Flying Enterprise og Kurt Carlsen er nu udgivet i både punktskrift og lydbog. Materialet kan bestilles af blinde og...
Read MoreA big surprise from Athens: Captain Carlsen taught her English in Germany
I’m very happy to tell the readers of this site about a letter that I received yesterday from Anne Dourou, Greece. Below is the...
Read More»My Aunt wrote a poem at the time of the sinking of Flying Enterprise in 1952…«
Mr. Bekker. Doing a web search for my Aunt, Edna Ruffell, on the wreck of the Flying Enterprise I found reference to a museum in memory of...
Read MoreWanted: Information about Kurt Carlsen’s personal flag ”Dannebrog”
In my research for the Danish edition of Flying Enterprise I had contact with a Dane in Hanoi. He had inherited Kurt Carlsen’s...
Read MoreThe artist behind the books frontpage – Peter Bilas from South Africa
Peter Bilas was born in Austria in 1952 and began painting as a hobby at the age of 15 in order to satiate a fascination with ships. Peter...
Read MoreAnother boy with the same radio dream – somewhere in Ireland January 1952
Funny – a litte boy in Ireland listening to the family radio in January 1952. And imagining the same situation as is did. Are you...
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