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Efter jeg havde gennemgået kurset på Statens Søfartsskolen i Esbjerg; startede min karriere til søs, jeg søgte forskellige rederier, det første jeg
hørte fra var "Masutten", hvor jeg fik tilbudt hyre, som messedreng ombord på et
af deres ældre skibe
S/S Fylla, det var bygget på Kjøbenhavn's Flydedok & Skibsværft i 1906.
Kamre..
Arbejde som dreng. Opbevaring af vores mad var også anderledes, jeg er ikke sikker på at fødevarerkontrollen i dag ville godkende det, på brodækket havde vi en stor kasse en isboks, hvor man opbevarede vores kød jeg tror op til en måned, det var ikke en fryser, men kølingen fore gik med isblokke, som blev pakket sammen med kødet, men selvfølgelig en forbedring i forhold til til tidligere tids salttønder. Kabyssen var naturligvis, som alt andet ombord kulfyret, så det var et en anderledes job kokken havde, men der var dejligt varmt i kabbyssen, det benyttede vagten sig også af om natten, når det var koldt på dækket.
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Skibstekniske Detaljer S/S FYLLA København Kendings OYDL Rederi Progress D/S Værft: Kjøbenhavn's Flydedok & Skibsværft Byggeår 1906 IHK. 438 Fremdrift Damp BRT. 775 TDW. 1135 Indkøbt 1918 Solgt 1955 |
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Dampskibs-Aktieselskabet Progress (Copenhagen)image by Ivan Sache, based on Joseph Nüsse website White flag with a red seven-pointed star in the middle, an elongated
and symmetrical Danish national flag placed along the upper edge of the
flag, and a red stripe charged with progress in white placed along the
lower edge of the flag. I guess this is an other Maersk-related company. No, not Maersk. Besides, the company seems to have gone belly-up in
the summer of 2000. There was talk of a management buy-out, but that
seems to have failed. Dampskibs-Aktieselskabet Progress (Copenhagen). Assuming that this is
the company now known as D/S Progress, it is still shown by Lloyds
operating through Progress Ugland Ltd. which is a joint venture with
Ugland International Holdings plc, formed around 1999. Whether the flag
is used by this concern is unknown. D/S Progress is shown as being
formed 1904 and again by presumption it is the company [as D/S A/S
Progress] which was operated by Marius Nielsen & Söhn and used their
flag as shown elsewhere on this page. This association seems to have
altered around 1960 when O. Amsinck are shown as the operators, from the
same address. By the early 1970s Amsinck are no longer mentioned and D/S
A/S Progress seem to have ceased as shipowners around the latter 1980s,
next being traced as D/S Progress in the late 1990s. Nothing is known of
when the flag shown here was adopted.
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When I had past the Seamannschool, did my time at sea start, I was writing to several shipping companies to find a job, the first I had a positive answer from, was Progress also called “ Masutten”, they did offer me a job, as mess boy onboard there oldest steamship “Fylla” build in Copenhagen 1906. Fylla was an old coal burner, one of last under Danish flag, the crew told me; she was the oldest seagoing ship in the Danish merchant marine. We were sailing in the North-/ Easter sea run, our first trip was to Gävle, Sweden to load props to the mines in England, when we hade unloaded our cargo, did vi load coal for Naestved, DK. It was a very tough trip, on the way home crossing the North sea in December, there were other ships in trouble in the same storm, the Danish motor ship “Gerda Toft” was lost and the hole crew lost there lives, the day before Christmas eve 1954. We was also In trouble, as an old ship, we had our steering machine midships width chains to the rudder aft, we were loaded with coal on deck, a piece of coal was stuck in the chains so it impossible to steer, but the deckcrew was rigging a wire over the deck cargo, we arrived safe to Naestved after a difficult and hard trip over the North sea. The captain told me after our arrival “ Kurt it could have been your first as well as your last trip at sea” it was more serious than I had thought. It was a very tough start on life at sea, to start as mess boy, on an old ship I should serve the officers in the mess, cleaning there cabin, and help the cook. My day started 3 clock in the morning and I was finish about 7 in the evening, when we were at sea. My days was a little shorter, when we stayed in port. Our last trip was to a little place I Belgium called Boom, we were all paid off, Fylla was sold to Ship-owner from Belgium, the crew should take the train back to Denmark, it was a 24 hours travel with train 1 1955.
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