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| Shopify Unique ID: | 10561474789668 |
| Trademe Reference: | PR1070 (77) |
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Description
FLIGHT FROM DAKAR
by Eiliv Hauge
and Vera Hartmann
DESCRIPTION
Format: small hardcover with dust jacket
Published: George Allen & Unwin 1954, 1st edition
Size (mm): 150 w x 220 h x 25 d
Pages: 200
SKU: A5/2305/0365/K576
ABOUT
In 1939 the Lidvard was a new ship of 9300 tons and one of the finest in the Norwegian merchant fleet.
The invasion of Norway found her at Saigon, but her master and crew decided at once to side with the Government in exile and to take orders from London.
But the fall of France found her, by sheer bad luck, in the port of Dakar, where she was promptly interned, with other Allied vessels, by the Vichy authorities. The men and their captain made slow and secret preparations for escape. With great ingenuity and skillful improvisation in the engine room they were able to deceive the harbour police.
It was more than 12 months before she got away, but it was not long before the vessel was sailing again in the Allied cause.
Includes monochrome images and the odd map.
CONDITION
Tidy, images depict all need to know detail.
REMARKS
Scarce locally
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