
16. October 1950
“Ernesto Tornquist” has run aground and steamed blowing by boilers (to bring down the pressure).
Photo: Leif Brandt
Year: 1950. 16. October.
“Ernesto Tornquist” has run aground and steamed blowing by boilers (to bring down the pressure).
Photo: Leif Brandt
Year: 1950. 16. October.
The casualty “Ernesto Tornquist” ved Cap Constanta.
Photo: Leif Brandt
Year: 1950.
Football match in Grytviken. The crew of a boat against workers from Grytviken.
Photo: Leif Brandt
Year: 1950.
Flanging of fin whales in Grytviken.
Photo: Leif Brandt
Year: 1950.
Whaling boat “Petrel” anchored in the Cumberland bay.
Photo: Leif Brandt
Year: 1950. 16. October.
Overview of Grytviken 1948. One sees føyk from spekkokeriets chimneys.
Photo: Leif Brandt
Year: 1950. 16. October.
“Ernesto Tornquist”s final journey from Montevideo in October 1950.
Photo: Leif Brandt
Year: 1950. 16. October.
A recent photo of “Ernesto Tornquist” ved Cap Constanta. In the foreground one Argentine of crew.
Photo: Leif Brandt
Year: 1950. 16. October.
The day after “Ernesto Tornquist”sinking. In the lifeboat from the left: Matros on “Don Miles” Torleif M. Østfold, unknown from Drammen and stoker on “Don Miles” Åge A.
Photo: Leif Brandt
Year: 1950. 16. October.
DS “all” with whalers and station crews from island by Thorøya Sandefjord. Across the bay is Jahres chemical plants, the left sees Framnæs Mechanical Workshop.
DS “all” ex “your” (transportskip, Tonsberg Hvalfangeri) ex Thorshøvdi (tanker, A/S Thor Dahl), was owned by A / S Albion Star (A. Ryan) and the transport ship for Compania Argentina de Pesca with service between South Georgia and Sandefjord / Europe.
Posted with permission from The Whaling Museum in Sandefjord.
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