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More photos of the "DANMARK"
All photos are contributed by Hanne Hjermitslev
He wrote me the following :
I have been visiting your tanker website quite a few times now. And I must say you have done a great job with it.
I first saw it due to making a bit reasearch of my now departed father's whereabouts in the past, before WW2
where he was sailing in the Danish merchant navy - and after that spent about a year in the Royal Danish
Navy. And then fishing for the rest of his working life.
All of this due to finding his discharge book, his diary written during his stay as a sea cadet on the first
Georg Stage in 1932 (now Joseph Conrad - based in Mystic Seaport in North America on the East coast).
Plus a load of photos mixed up in two albums from those old days.
Trainingvessel "Georg Stage (I)".
( Photos © Handels- og Søfartsmuseet, Danmark )
After the Georg Stage he spent a short period fishing. Then on the 22nd of May 1934 he got on board of the
M/T Danmark of Copenhagen, a that time belonging to "Det Danske Petroleums Aktieselskab - D.D.P.A. -
He had to go to Helsingborg in Sweden to get on board.
First period on board was from 22nd of May 1934 to 24th of July 1934. Title then was "Boy". Then he got
promoted to "Young man" on the 25th of July 1934 - and remained "Young Man" till the day he finished
on that ship, namely 11th of July 1935. He was then 18 years old.
I can see that you are looking for photos of the M/T Danmark. I know these are not very good photos, due
to being old and not very well looked after - but your are wellcome to use them if you can. All taken by my
father, apart from the one with the members of the crew on, it is my father to the left as 17 year old.
Also good to see all of the good information you have of the ship.
Apart from Aruba they also went up to Baton Rouge (refineries) by New Orleans in his time on board -
trip normally ended up in Stockholm in Sweden as last stop before going return again.
Mr. Peder Kristian Nielsen (Peder) Hjermitslev, on the left, with other crew members of the "Danmark".
M/T "Danmark".
M/T "Danmark" rolling on the Atlantic Ocean.
M/T "Danmark" rolling on the Atlantic Ocean.
M/T "Danmark" rolling on the Atlantic Ocean.
My father's discharge book from when he was on the M/T "Danmark".
The man running on the gangway above the deck is the third mate, called Svendsen.
"Hansen, Hans and Kjeld".
Hansen is the person to the left, he was fresh from the engineer school when he got on board the "Danmark"
as his first assignment at sea in August 1934 as an assistant. Full name of him was Svend Vendelstrup-Hansen.
For this he got paid 175 danish kroner per month. The following year he got 185 kroner per month.