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...dense fog hung low as the Isbrandtsen Company's 6,711-ton freighter Flying Enterprise moved away from her pier in Hamburg; her Danish-born master, Henrik Kurt Carlsen, 37, was obliged to conn her down the harbor by radar. There was nasty weather outside, and she creaked and complained as she rolled down past Dover and through the English Channel, heavy with a cargo of coffee beans, antique furniture, automobiles, U.S. mail and Rotterdam pig iron...
...Hull Cracks. On the bridge, the captain calmly prepared for trouble. During nearly 23 years as a deep-water sailor, amiable, stubborn Kurt Carlsen had been in his share of tight spots, but he bore small resemblance to the dramatic sea dog of fiction. He had, for instance, a penchant for providing flowers for the ship's passengers. He enjoyed toiling on deck with the crew. He kept a motorcycle on the ship, and used it for jaunts ashore-expeditions for which he often donned an electrically lighted bow tie. He was an unabashed radio ham and on dull...
Albion denied that Carlsen stayed aboard merely to prevent the ship from becoming a "derelict" whose cargo can be claimed by either the salvager or anyone who cares to board it. If the shipping line had announced its intention to salvage the Flying Enterprise, he asserted, the ship would not have become a "derelict...
Harris J. Isbrantsen, the ship's owner, made no such statement and probably told Carlsen that he should stick by the ship, Albion said. He termed this an example of the shipper's "flair for the spectacular...
Although the tradition of being last off the ship is an old one in the history of seafaring, Albion termed Carlsen's action as far "over and beyond the normal line of duty...