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- Telegrafist/Radio ofiser motok Krigsmedaljen for sjømend
Einar seilte under 2. verdenskrig mellom halifax og london
som radio operatør på D/S Helle den ble torpedert :her er Fakta om Torpederingen
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Final Fate - 1941:
Helle was torpedoed by U-98, (Gysae) on April 3-1941, position 59 00N 24 30W*. As mentioned above, she had left Halifax on March 20 in Convoy SC 26 which had been attacked on Apr. 2, and after 6 merchant ships had gone down by the next morning, and the escorting British cruiser Worchestershire had been damaged by a torpedo, the Commodore had ordered the convoy to disperse (this according to journal excerpt - dispersal not mentioned in other sources). D/S Nea, which had also been in the convoy made it safely to Iceland, but U-boats caught up with 4 ships, which were all torpedoed and sunk.
Helle, with a cargo of 350 tons steel and 2600 tons wood pulp for London was hit on the starboard side in the after part of No. 2 hatch at 21:30 GMT, Apr. 3, but stayed afloat for an hour. The captain and radio operator remained on board for 20 minutes while the crew took to the boats. After SOS had been sent the entire crew got into the port lifeboat as the starboard boat was leaking. They were rescued the next morning by the destroyer Havelock, which had been notified of her situation by the radio station at Resolution Island after Helle's distress signals had been received. The survivors were landed in Liverpool in the afternoon of Apr. 8, where the maritime hearings were held on Apr. 17, with the captain, the 1st mate, the 1st engineer, Ordinary Seaman Olsen (lookout), and Ordinary Seaman Hansen (helmsman) appearing.
* Rohwer gives position as 59 06N 24 12W and the date as Apr. 4 at 00:29 German time.
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- (Research):Wattne, Einar, Mandal, f.9.12.1904, Sjømann, Skip: D/S HELLE, M/S PARA, D/S SIREHEI
http://stiftelsen-arkivet.no/w
http://www.warsailors.com/singleships/para.html
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Skip Einar seilte på
Førstereis gutt på tre damperen "Aspholm" som ble hetende "Mandals sorg".
et par tre år med gamle seilskip
Jungman på "Constanse" her er det en historie om at den seilte inn mannefjorden i et forykende uvær, og grundstøtte et par ganger. Skipet ble seilt in til grunnebanken, og reparert ved saanums verft. Skipet ble solgt i 1921/22, men Einar fulgte med som jungman til en østersjøisk havn.
Kort tid etter dette fikk han hyre som letmatros på stålbarken "Yola" av Lillesand , den gikk med trelast fra skandinavia til Australia, og derfra med kull til sør amerikas vestkyst, og med salpeter til europa. Og med dette ble han Mandals siste kaphorner.
Matros på "Halse" mandals eneste dampskip 1922-1936
han tok telegraffist eksamen etter 1936 og seilte da som telgrafist under de harde 30 årene og under hele krigen
Om bord flytende kokeri "New Sevilla" sesongen 1939-40
under krigen var han telegrafist på følgende båter
M/S Fernplant
TelegrafistNew York, NY, USA12.3.1943New York, NY, USA6.9.1945
D/S Kong Haakon
TelegrafistLiverpool, UK21.3.1942Liverpool, UK23.2.1943
D/S Sirehei
TelegrafistLiverpool, UK26.12.1941Liverpool, UK24.2.1942
M/S Para
TelegrafistLiverpool, UK20.5.1941Liverpool, UK26.12.1941
D/T Helle
TelegrafistWest Hartlepool, UK31.7.1940Reddet etter forlis3.4.1941
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