| Show crosses 45 times never met U boat tanker carried gas to british NEW YORK despite the efforts of nazi submarine wolf packs and bombers a fast norwegian tanker has crossed the atlantic 45 dinies times without serious mishap since the war began in september 1939 and has delivered million gallons of precious aviation gasoline to british ports without losing a drop officials of the norwegian shipping and trade mission 80 broad street described the vessel as the tanker champion of world war II 11 in telling the story of the ships achievement th the tanker is now in an east coast port undergoing a routine overhauling the vessel has never been in a norwegian port although its home port is oslo norway she was built in hamburg germany and delivered in june 1939 a little more than two months before the war her 2500 horsepower diesel motors which have carried her safely past lurking submarines were manufactured by the same company in augsburg germany which produces motors for german U boats capt reidar henriksen master of the vessel since the spring of 1941 said that no one on the ship ever saw a german submarine or bomber on one voyage a ship yards astern was torpedoed and blew up he said but we never saw the submarine and I 1 guess he never saw us jan johannssen the chief steward who has been on all the ships voyages since it was commissioned has consistently refused to take a shore rest and returned to the ship after only four days of a vacation granted to him while the vessel was being overhauled captain henriksen said he told me he found it too confusing ashore the captain said |
