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Subject: [Mariners-L] Re: ULYSSES
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 14:10:11 EST


Captain Carroll,
I certainly appreciate all the information on "Ulysses" and the Isbrandtsen
Co. who owned it. I was particularly interested in the book you mentioned on
Hans Isbrandtsen and his career in the steamship business. Could you send me
the name of the author of "American Viking" so I could try to get it through
the library, perhaps on inter-library loan?

Small world--that you would have docked these ships and been in ham radio
contact with Captain Kurt Carlson of the "Flying Enterprise." From the date
you mentioned when the ship sank (1951), it must have happened soon after I
began working for their attorney. That was the closest I've been to the world
of ships, other than my sea-faring ancestors and a father who was a career
Navy man--retired as a Chief Radio Man. He started out in 1928 aboard US
Submarine S-19 and his last ship was the USS Fargo, light cruiser in 1946.
After that it was shore duty in D.C. The only mermaid he ever found was the
one he married in Key West in 1932.

Thanks again for the info. Jeanne

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